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Puck (---.sfldmidn.dynamic.covad.net)
Farquitt is fictional. JFf has copyright issues to deal with if he wants to reference contemporary fiction, so it's easier for him to create a fictional author. (She is so roundly -- an deservedly -- criticized that no real writer would ever give permission for their name to be used. And JFf isn't that mean). The sort of romance novels Farquitt writes are so recognizably awful, however, that we have no trouble plugging her into our imagino-transfer devices. It gets to point across quite nicely.
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Metaphors be with you!