Talk:Harry Palmer
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I think the business about the former scientologist and his programme for self-improvement is non-famous, advertising, and vanity. If the name wasn't also of an apparently well known fictional character, this would be Wikipedia:Votes for deletion material. Smerdis of Tlön 01:10, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- This Harry Palmer is completely unrelated to the one you mention. The Yeti 03:32, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More on origin of name
This is my own observation but check it out!
In the first novel, The Ipcress File, the unnamed narrator states in chapter five, "My name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember whether it ever had been." On the previous page the spy steals a suspicious man's wallet: "I stuffed them back, palmed the wallet, said "O.K." to the protesting hostess." This proximity between the word "palmed" and the spy being addressed as "Harry" (only 24 lines)could have conceivably acted as a subconcious prompt to the film-makers when choosing the name.Daisyabigael 15:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
