Naked Came I

[prog]

Was there a book or a movie or a comic strip or something in which a character wrote or wanted to write a book or a screenplay or something titled Naked Came I? I think it was meant to be an absurdly pretentious idea, though the character thought it was a serious and groundbreaking work.

The phrase has been swimming in my head for days and I swear that I originally picked it up long ago from some constructed scenario like that. But Googling this phrase leads to inconclusive results, though apparently the original source of the quote is the Book of Job (KJV), which I did not know.

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[spatch]

It was in Bloom County. Opus wrote an autobiography called "A Penguin's Story", and I think Milo was the one who "punched it up" a bit and turned it into "Naked Came I."

The only one at the booksigning afterwards was Milquetoast the cockroach.

Why do I remember these things?

[novalis.livejournal.com]

this?

[prog.livejournal.com]

No, it's definitely Bloom County, as Spatch said.

But, that is pretty brilliant.

I don't get it....

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

how is writing a sexually explicit novel under pen name a hoax? Unless they claimed it was autobiographical, the story makes no sense at all.

Re: I don't get it....

[prog.livejournal.com]

According to the WP article, the authors (a bunch of guys) put forth a female friend of theirs to pose as the one single author, though she didn't actually have anything to do with its writing.

Re: I don't get it....

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

eh, thats just a slightly exagerated form of pen name... still don't think it qualifies as anything so grandious as a hoax.... *shrug*

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I believe there's a biography of Rodin titled Naked Came I, but you're pretty clearly not thinking of that.

yes!

[meerkitty.livejournal.com]

that was exactly what i first thought as well. it was a brilliant book. author was weiss.
i devored it as a pubescentling. it was delicious, she says, all spinxlike. :D