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More likely bad editing. Joe was his roommate and eventual boss. It's only once near the end that his aunt calls him Joe.
by scrumper 14y ago
More likely bad editing. Joe was his roommate and eventual boss. It's only once near the end that his aunt calls him Joe.
- jrochkind1 14y agoyeah, bad editing, but if it weren't fiction, would the author have mis-stated his own name in his first draft?
- __--__ 14y agoIf he had decided to use a different name so he could publish anonymously, sure.
- moconnor 14y agoIf it were real, names would have been changed to anonymize it. No search replace in those days, so it's an easy way for such a mistake to creep in. I still suspect it's a fictional or largely fictional piece though.