Narrator.us – Narrator (No Longer for Sale)
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As of June 19, 2015, two live (January 21, 2105, and December
6, 2013) and one dead trademarks were
found on USPTO.gov for the exact term
Narrator
However, these uses
have to do with various kinds of software, not in its generic sense. In other
words, in the U.S., a commonly used generic cannot
be trademarked for its descriptive meaning. So a buyer’s intended use is
important to consider before purchase.
Meanwhile, here is an
example of a narrator in literature (a memoir):
Caged
I was caged.
Then, I was driven.
Driven to Cherokee.
A hazy memory of riding caged in the back of a police car.
Two shadows in the front seat, the county sheriff and a female escort.
Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” buzzing from a tinny transistor radio.
Outside, the Iowa landscape bleak.
Cloudy and cold.
Condensation and frost riming the windows.
Piles of dirty snow dotting the countryside.
I, cargo.
Destination: Cherokee’s other place, the outline on the hill.
Shifting, crossing my legs…
Please, can we stop?
Hot and steamy inside.
Shivering, my teeth rattling.
Please…I have to go!
Hear something, George?
Naw, nothin’ important.
Laughter.
Cargo has no voice.
Madness has no voice.
Listen, crazy girl…
Two voices: We have come to take
you away, ha, ha…
“I’m crazy, crazy…”
Fragments, crazy-quilt impressions, acid flashbacks…
I, crazy?
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“Caged”: Prologue,
Memoir Madness: Driven to InvoluntaryCommitment, available on Amazon ©
Jennifer Semple Siegel