Ian Frazier’s “Fanshawe”, a humor piece in the November 2 New Yorker, begins: Fanshawe had just the one name. Later: In college, Fanshawe’s social set had included an unusual number of men–Neuman,Farrel, Fogel, Harrison, Fegley, Carson, Foster, Ferguson, Sapers, Miles, Northon, Winslow–who were mononomes like himself. Mononome is a wonderful morphological invention, immediately interpretable in … Continue reading Short shot #17: Fanshawe the mononome