Todd Palmer
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Why does Jimmy call himself Snowman? Do you think it is a subtle allusion to the pseudo-Christian framework he establishes to explain things to the Crakers? I don't believe that was explained nor was his his previous nickname (Thickney?) or Crake�
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Kathleen Flynn
I thought it was in part to reference his own impermanence, his fragility: a snowman is something that vaguely resembles a man, but isn't one, is doomed to melt and disappear, leaving no trace. And snow is something that appears to have already disappeared from this climate-changed world. Also probably a reference to the amazing Wallace Stevens poem: "the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
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Joel
Because he saw himself as "Abominable". He didn't fit in anywhere.
Judy Lindow
It could just be a joke because the snow is gone, it's from the past, historical, and this is how he feels - gone, gone, gone.
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