tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post3447707281708682824..comments2024-01-27T01:51:07.872-08:00Comments on Jot101: Kent writer self-combustsJot101http://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-43035558919325601392014-05-01T16:43:16.772-07:002014-05-01T16:43:16.772-07:00I'd meant to include a link in my previous com...I'd meant to include a link in my previous comment, but something went awry.<br />http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=52248659&PIpi=28291992<br />A memorial for John Temple Johnson is shown above. (Fort misquoted the original name.)Daniel R Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18367883734208915422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-72277058007571160262014-05-01T16:24:19.555-07:002014-05-01T16:24:19.555-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Daniel R Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18367883734208915422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-74772944629907723212014-05-01T12:56:05.032-07:002014-05-01T12:56:05.032-07:00According to http://www.resologist.net/talent11.ht...According to http://www.resologist.net/talent11.htm it was J. Temple Johnson. Unfortunately he doesn't appear in the BL catalogue either.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-46738098302706703022014-05-01T11:19:24.616-07:002014-05-01T11:19:24.616-07:00Thanks Brian. The name is confusing. It is possibl...Thanks Brian. The name is confusing. It is possible that J Temple Thurston was a local gentleman scholar, a sort of latter day Casaubon, researching and writing but never publishing with a grand library etc.,thought of locally as a writer. I remember once a man being described as a genius simply because he had a ton of books. Thanks for pointing out the Lowry connection -a writer who was no stranger to fires himself, as I recall... NigelJot101https://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-18797262720023909502014-05-01T06:51:20.716-07:002014-05-01T06:51:20.716-07:00If memory serves, the sudden death of J. Temple Th...If memory serves, the sudden death of J. Temple Thurston is discussed at some length in Malcolm Lowry's <i>October Ferry to Gabriola</i> (in which he's confused with E. Temple Thurston).<br /><br />One would think that researching such a name would be relatively easy. I wonder whether J chose a nom de plume so as not to be confused with E (whom I have sometimes seen referred to as "F"). Or might it be that the newspaper account confused the two men in describing J as a "local writer".<br /><br />I happened upon this sort of confusion last year in the life of the once-popular novelist Arthur Stringer, who was reported to have been killed in a violent explosion - <a href="http://brianbusby.blogspot.ca/2012/10/the-sudden-violent-deaths-of-arthur.html" rel="nofollow"> the cause of which was reported in detail</a> - when in fact the victim was another man, in another town, in another country. Very odd.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.com