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unearths some literary gems.
From Freshwater, by Virginia Woolf:
NELL: A porpoise? A real porpoise?JOHN: What else should a porpoise be?[Note: I wrote the following "bonus" section before learning that "Trekkie" was, per Wikipedia, artist "Trekkie Ritchie Parsons (née Marjorie Tulip Ritchie)." I'm preserving the obsolete paragraph below for the record; and, meanwhile, we've gained a person bearing the middle name Tulip.][Bonus: The person who edited this very posthumous publication thanks, among others, someone whose given name apparently is Trekkie. The complete phrase, part of the usual roster of acknowledgees, is "Trekkie and Ian Parsons." So I figure either Trekkie and Ian are human family members sharing a surname; or Trekkie is Ian's dog or cat or parrot (getting precedence!); or Trekkie is a mononymic but forgotten celebrity who cohabits with Ian. I further reason that since the book wasn't published until 1976, the term "Trekkie," as in Star Trek fan, was probably already around, so someone might conceivably have used it as a parrot name or, if they were an ST superfan, adopted it as their own nickname.]
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