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daibhidcSome of you may be familiar with Sue Limb's Radio 4 comedies The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere and Gloomsbury, which are about oddly familiar groups of writers: The former features, as well as William and Dorothy Wordsmith, Percy Jelly, Lord Biro and Sir Walter Spott, while the latter stars Ginny Fox and Vera Sackcloth-Vest, as well as D.H. Lollipop, T.S. Jellytot, and so on. They're very funny, even if you only have a vague idea about the originals.
So, in the spirit of those I came up with:
The Clinklings
It is the 1930s. At the Beagle and Stile pub in Oxbridge (affectionately known as the Dog and Doorframe), a literary discussion group is formed among some academics. These include:
Robert Rupert Rumbert Spoken, published as R.R.R. Spoken and known to his friends as Rupert. A pipe-smoking professor of linguistics who spends his spare time inventing a language called Quorna, and a work of mythology based on this language, set in a fantasy world called Middle-Girth.
Clyde Stipples Lunar, published as C.S. Lunar and known to his friends as Jim. An enthusiastic young professor, and good friend of Rupert. Inspired by Spoken, he is also creating a fantasy world, which he calls Nanana. Rupert is rather impatient that Jim's world doesn't have any real mythological feel to it and is full of silly talking animals.
Alfred Oven Barfly, published and known as Oven Barfly. One of the few Clinklings who doesn't write fiction, although he encourages the others.
William Charles, published and known as William Charles. An editor at the Oxbridge University Press. He also writes fantasy, although he prefers stories in which the everyday world is invaded by the fantastic, such as his novel War in Devon.
Roland Lancelot Grail. A friend and student of Jim and a keen adapter of mythology for children. Roland is also writing a biography of the late Lars Chadwick Dodgeball, better known as Morse Wassail, the author of Agatha's Adventures in Somewhereland. He is constantly trying to get the Dodgeball estate to send him the diaries.
Christian Spoken, son of R.R.R. Spoken. One of the younger Clinklings, Christian is very keen on Middle-Girth, and has a somewhat pedantic obsession with keeping it consistent that his father doesn't always worry about. Rupert sometimes embarrasses him by talking about the stories he used to entertain Christian as a boy, such as Notes from the Easter Bunny and A Doggy's Adventure.
Doris Lean Sayso, published as Doris L. Sayso. Not actually a member of the Clinklings on account of being a woman, but a friend of Rupert and Jim. An advertising copywriter, Doris is thinking of quitting to concentrate on her mystery novels, featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Percy Caprise.
So, in the spirit of those I came up with:
The Clinklings
It is the 1930s. At the Beagle and Stile pub in Oxbridge (affectionately known as the Dog and Doorframe), a literary discussion group is formed among some academics. These include:
Robert Rupert Rumbert Spoken, published as R.R.R. Spoken and known to his friends as Rupert. A pipe-smoking professor of linguistics who spends his spare time inventing a language called Quorna, and a work of mythology based on this language, set in a fantasy world called Middle-Girth.
Clyde Stipples Lunar, published as C.S. Lunar and known to his friends as Jim. An enthusiastic young professor, and good friend of Rupert. Inspired by Spoken, he is also creating a fantasy world, which he calls Nanana. Rupert is rather impatient that Jim's world doesn't have any real mythological feel to it and is full of silly talking animals.
Alfred Oven Barfly, published and known as Oven Barfly. One of the few Clinklings who doesn't write fiction, although he encourages the others.
William Charles, published and known as William Charles. An editor at the Oxbridge University Press. He also writes fantasy, although he prefers stories in which the everyday world is invaded by the fantastic, such as his novel War in Devon.
Roland Lancelot Grail. A friend and student of Jim and a keen adapter of mythology for children. Roland is also writing a biography of the late Lars Chadwick Dodgeball, better known as Morse Wassail, the author of Agatha's Adventures in Somewhereland. He is constantly trying to get the Dodgeball estate to send him the diaries.
Christian Spoken, son of R.R.R. Spoken. One of the younger Clinklings, Christian is very keen on Middle-Girth, and has a somewhat pedantic obsession with keeping it consistent that his father doesn't always worry about. Rupert sometimes embarrasses him by talking about the stories he used to entertain Christian as a boy, such as Notes from the Easter Bunny and A Doggy's Adventure.
Doris Lean Sayso, published as Doris L. Sayso. Not actually a member of the Clinklings on account of being a woman, but a friend of Rupert and Jim. An advertising copywriter, Doris is thinking of quitting to concentrate on her mystery novels, featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Percy Caprise.
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Date: 2015-12-13 08:32 pm (UTC)Thanks for this.
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