👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather prickly and delightfully odd beast that is a “
Wally Lamb.
" 1!
Now, traditionally when you hear "Walter Lamb," you probably envision a distinguished older gentleman with maybe a tweed waistcoat and a very serious head of Worthington pate. Nope! Absolutely not. Instead, we get the Wally Lamb. You see, he's actually a surname . And that surname belongs to one Walter Nick Fulbright Lamb – a rather prolific, and frankly quite prickly, American reclusive sometime-guy who is known for writing this: 2. Essentially, a " Wally Lamb, as in a name, describes someone of considerable, probably somewhat awkwardly large, stature; therefore they are called that because they really look like a wall of lamb. . . This isn't about actual sheep, mind you – unless one is picturing the very worst kind of rural Pennsylvania farm! We're talking about a guy who’s physically… substantial. It has to be said this name came from, according to Lamb himself, that when he was 18 and had been sitting in an armchair all day at his mother's house and she said, "Oh Walter you look like a wall of lamb." The rest as they say is history. The naming convention isn’t meant to insult anyone (well, maybe not really), but rather to simply, and with a degree of weary amusement, document the guy’s
