RE: Very quiet this morning?17 Nov 2023 12:48
On the subject of multiple identities…
True story from 1990s.
Acquaintance of mine was a reporter who knew a sports journalist (ABC) who wrote for a national on a particular sport subject. He, ABC, also wrote for a rival paper on the same subject but under a pseudonym, XYZ, so his main contract client wouldn’t know.
One day a letter arrived from a reader who berated his writing; ‘ABC didn’t know the subject, couldn’t write, terrible style, ought to be sacked’ etc.
The punchline of the letter was that the only person who really knew ‘how to write on the subject is XYX’ - who of course was his own pseudonym in the rival rag.