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Dermot Hoggins is a memoirist with a criminal history. He publishes his book, Knuckle Sandwich, through Timothy Cavendish’s vanity press. The book remains obscure until Dermot gets so angry with the literary critic Felix Finch that he throws him off a roof and kills him. The murder makes Dermot instantly famous, and sales of Knuckle Sandwich soar. Unfortunately for Dermot, the restrictive terms of his contract with Timothy mean that most of the profits go to Timothy. This doesn’t sit well with Dermot’s brothers, who are just as violent as him and try to extort Timothy for money, starting a chain of events that ends with Timothy confined in the Aurora House nursing home. The events of Dermot’s life satirize the publishing industry and fame in general, showing how all publicity is good publicity and how some people try to exploit tragedy for personal gain.
Dermot Hoggins Quotes in Cloud Atlas
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Chapter 4
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I will not deny a nascent sense of a silver lining to this tragic turn. My Haymarket office suite housed ninety-five unsold shrink-wraps of Dermot Hoggins’s Knuckle Sandwich, impassioned memoir of Britain’s soon to be most famous murderer. Frank Sprat—my stalwart printer in Sevenoaks, to whom I owed so much money I had the poor man over a barrel—still had the plates and was ready to roll at a moment’s notice.
Hardcovers, ladies and gentlemen.
Fourteen pounds ninety-nine pence a shot.
A taste of honey!
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Dermot Hoggins Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Dermot Hoggins or refer to Dermot Hoggins. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
Quotes
I will not deny a nascent sense of a silver lining to this tragic turn. My Haymarket office suite housed ninety-five unsold shrink-wraps of Dermot Hoggins’s Knuckle Sandwich, impassioned memoir of Britain’s soon to be most famous murderer. Frank Sprat—my stalwart printer in Sevenoaks, to whom I owed so much money I had the poor man over a barrel—still had the plates and was ready to roll at a moment’s notice.
Hardcovers, ladies and gentlemen.
Fourteen pounds ninety-nine pence a shot.
A taste of honey!
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