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The Man Whose Name Wou...
 
by
Theodore Tyler

The Man Whose Name Wouldn't Fit

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Paperback, 206 pages
Published 1968 by Curtis Books
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The titular character, Arthur Duane Cartwright-Chickering, is fired from his job because the new computer that processes employee files cannot handle his long name. From this rather unlikely premise (why can’t management, and the machine, refer to him by a shortened name, even if Arthur himself refuses to shorten it?), a sort of Luddite committee develops, as he and some sympathetic friends use the accidental discovery of a plastic-eating fungus to commit acts of vandalism against large companie...more
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