That Stephen Crane, in writing "Maggie, a Girl of the Streets," a book about ungracious living, called himself Johnston Smith?
The web dialogue is part of the lead up to the FICE international young people's conference on out-of-home living, called 'Creating a Place for Us'.
But by the time Miéville had introduced me to a character called Mr. Speaker, whose every word emerges from his mouth as a living creature called an Utterling, I was too captivated to complain.
"Lying for a living, Marlon called it," Nolte said, bent double.
The key element in the Qbic hotel room is a living pod called the Cubi.
"People who do love for a living are called hookers," he snorts.
We went to the Tate and said we would like to present a living sculpture called A Christmas Piece.
Finally, a living substance called protoplasm was recognized within cells, its vitality made evident by its active streaming, or flowing, movements, especially in plant cells.
After college she worked as a street performer, a living statue called the Eight-Foot Bride .It gives you a confidence of steel," she says.
In Queens, recently, an artists' collective called Flux Factory commissioned architects to design three writers' "habitats" — human terrariums, essentially, into which writers would move for a month's time, as part of a "living installation" called "novel".
