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...works parody the routine that Mr. Lodge himself followed as a professor of English at the University of Birmingham in England. Paradise News changes its focus from the academic motif, although not entirely, and the result is a pleasing, light work that will satisfy both Lodge fans expecting Morris Zapp and Phillip Swallow and readers not familiar with his career...
...been suggested that Morris Zapp, of Small World, was modeled on Stanley Fish. Do you model characters on acquaintances...
...Morris Zapp is the only one--Stanley is very old friend of mine, and I did borrow some things from Stanley, who was notorious for writing his books on Milton while watching American football or baseball. But Morris Zapp is a kind of typical; figure, who has been "identified" with other academics--Leslie Fiedler or Harold Bloom or whatever. And it pleases me, because he is a representative type--and Stanley has rather encouraged the likeness, I think. On the whole, I'm very careful not to portray people--I don't write romans a clef, though Small World...
...little whimsy can be worth a thousand points of B-school jargon. In Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (Harmony Books; 200 pages; $17.95), consultant William Byham uses knights, dragons and a machine that hurls people into the 12th dimension to spice his lively treatise on energizing workers. The point of the fable is to show how sharing power with workers can revitalize an entire company...
This type of self-criticism and analysis will be familiar to readers of Small World and Changing Places, as will the characters of Phillip Swallow and Morris Zapp, who both play cameo roles here...