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'''{{todoPAGENAME}}''' is one of the [[Strangers]] who acts as Shannon and Joseph's "guide" at the [[Hard Times Distillery]]. He appears as a glowing skeleton and works as a copywrighter at the Distillery. == ''The Entertainment'' == Doolittle is the is the writer of ''A Reckoning'' and ''A Bar-fly'', two plays which were together adapted by [[Joseph]] for simultaneous performance as [[The Entertainment]]. In real life, ''A Reckoning'' is based on playwright Eugene O'Neill's ''[[wikipedia:The Iceman Cometh|The Iceman Cometh]]'', featuring a similar story and characters (this play, in turn, is thought of as inspired by Maxim Gorky's ''[[wikipedia:The Lower Depths|The Lower Depths]]'', after which the tavern [[the Lower Depths]] is named. ''A Bar-fly'' is based on Samuel Beckett's ''[[wikipedia:Act Without Words I|Act Without Words]]'', a playwright whose play ''[[wikipedia:Waiting for Godot|Waiting for Godot]]'' is quoted and referenced multiple times throughout {{KRZ}}. == Name == His name is a reference to [[wikipedia:Oliver Lynn|Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn]], the husband of [[wikipedia:Loretta Lynn|Loretta Lynn]] (on whom [[Junebug]] is based), and possibly to Hilda "H.D." Doolittle, an American Imagist poet.
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