Re: currently reading

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Lauradog Pondered, Weak and Weary,
Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, and then wrote:
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I'm listening on tape (copied to iPod) "The Narrows" by Michael
Connelly.

I found one incongruity, which I don't think is a spoiler, but I'll
leave some spoiler space anyway, because I need to set it up.

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The book is about the Poet, who shows up again, and this time Harry
Bosch is involved. Harry is hired by Terry McCaleb's (of "Blood Work")
widow, to investigate his suspicious death. There's a couple of
reference's to Terry's notoriety caused by his inclusion in the Clint
Eastwood movie. I found this to be,... well, incongruous, for lack of
a better word.

If the book is fiction, though assuming a conceit of reality (i.e.,
we, the readers are supposed to assume we are listening to a true
story) the inclusion of a reference to a real movie in which a
fictional character is portrayed, even though that fictional character
is supposed to be real...wait, that's confusing.

How can Terry McCaleb be referenced in a real movie when the movie
(Blood Work) is fiction? Does that make sense? It didn't to me.

John P




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