# Is Diana Moon Glampers a reference to someone?(Harrison Bergeron story) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471 "2015-09-16T14:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471/1 "2015-09-16T14:29:42Z")
I’ve always had a odd feeling this character name is in reference to someone possibly from a political issue at the time the story was written, this is the only character where the middle name is included in the story. But all I can find is that it is possibly the goddess Diana, which doesn’t make much sense. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471/2 "2015-09-16T15:10:17Z")
If anything, it’s likely just a reference to other Vonnegut stories. Another character named Diana Moon Glampers later appears in _God Bless You, Mister Rosewater_. Vonnegut often reused characters (or at least their names) in his various books. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471/3 "2015-09-16T15:22:22Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If anything, it’s likely just a reference to other Vonnegut stories. Another character named Diana Moon Glampers later appears in _God Bless You, Mister Rosewater_. Vonnegut often reused characters (or at least their names) in his various books. I didn’t know he reused the name, thanks. In addition to the middle name it just seemed odd and out of place with the rest in the story. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471/4 "2015-09-16T21:21:58Z")
Note that Diana is the Roman goddess of the Moon. The _virgin_ goddess, that is. One might guess that she’s the child of some flower-children type parents and rebelled against that, becoming an extreme conformist/prude She has a bit bigger role in the TV movie [Between Time and Timbuktu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Time_and_Timbuktu) which has the Bergeron story as as subplot. In fact, Bergeron isn’t all that much bigger of a character. She was portrayed as a nasty, ugly older woman. ---
**Author:** ![Prevalence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@Prevalence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prevalence)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-diana-moon-glampers-a-reference-to-someone-harrison-bergeron-story/731471/5 "2025-01-11T00:00:57Z")
This response is to an old post that does not appear to have been adequately addressed. Diana = dying to ~ dyin-ta ~ dyin-na ~ Diana Moon = moon Glampers = campers To understand the reference, look for an organization that is comprised of people who hold positions in all levels of society (education, real estate, law, banking/finance, medicine, government) who both have the capacity to make life difficult for people, and, whose members have built rockets and camped on the moon. Milo Minderbinder (from Heller’s Catch-22) refers to a member of the same, or linked, organization. So said an elementary school teacher of mine, anyway.