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« Reply #15 on: 22:37:18, 08-02-2008 » |
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My immediate thought is that I am the eponymous hero of the "Where's Wally" books, but I shall give some thought to a more serious answer.  Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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MabelJane
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« Reply #16 on: 22:40:59, 08-02-2008 » |
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Jane Eyre
The first character I really identified with - and still do. The name helps!
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #17 on: 23:07:07, 08-02-2008 » |
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Any Barbara Pym heroine.
I think you're being unduly harsh on yourself there. That's sweet of you, sk. I've only just re-read Glass of Blessings and Excellent Women. Barbara Pym gets the Anglo-Catholic gay underworld to an absolute T in the first one, and I find it very moving that such an uptight lady in 1952 could be so unfazed by gay men. Comparing myself to Harold Skimpole is far more damning. Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey. I first read the book when I was about her age, and I was just as unsophisticated. Was I waiting for a charming, well-connected young clergyman to be amused by me and fall for me? Maybe, but he never turned up. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #18 on: 23:09:05, 08-02-2008 » |
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Hmm, I think there may be a mix of Barbara Pym and Anita Brookner female characters in my cauldron. With a touch of Eyore
O yes, thank you. A big bit of Eeyore in me. (It was my avatar for some time. I must change it back for my birthday.) |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #19 on: 23:22:08, 08-02-2008 » |
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I tried to read Quartet in Autumn once, but couldn't get on with it. There's something about Pym's style which enrages me - I found myself reading it with a sense of mounting fury. In the end, I had to give up, to spare my blood pressure.
Oddly, Jane Austen has the same effect on me - what this says about me as a person I hesitate to say.
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« Reply #20 on: 23:22:32, 08-02-2008 » |
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Paddington Bear.
Tries his best but things inevitably go disastrously wrong. Yet still maintains an unshakeable belief that everything will turn out right in the end.
And never quite understands why the world around him is so completely illogical...
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« Reply #21 on: 23:23:42, 08-02-2008 » |
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O yes, thank you. A big bit of Eeyore in me. (It was my avatar for some time. I must change it back for my birthday.)
I hope somebody takes the hint and buys you a useful pot to put things in |
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Andy D
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« Reply #22 on: 23:34:49, 08-02-2008 » |
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Yes bring back Eeyore Don B! I've read a lot of Barbara Pym, almost entirely because a friend of mine is some official (secretary?) in the BP Society and so talks about her a lot. MJ: I've always loved Jane Eyre and I suppose I've even identified with her to a certain extent as she's prepared to stand up to Rochester - but she then falls for him  Jane, choose me! |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #23 on: 00:09:37, 09-02-2008 » |
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O yes, thank you. A big bit of Eeyore in me. (It was my avatar for some time. I must change it back for my birthday.)
I hope somebody takes the hint and buys you a useful pot to put things in Not forgetting the burst balloon of course!   Sorry it's not EH Shephard. |
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Andy D
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« Reply #24 on: 00:17:32, 09-02-2008 » |
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Mr Rochester Gets the Colour of Jane's Eyes Wrong
"Jane, you look blooming, and smiling, and pretty," said he: "truly pretty this morning. Is this my pale, little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?" (I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose.)
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« Reply #25 on: 00:25:01, 09-02-2008 » |
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Mr Rochester Gets the Colour of Jane's Eyes Wrong
"Jane, you look blooming, and smiling, and pretty," said he: "truly pretty this morning. Is this my pale, little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?" (I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose.)
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Andy D
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« Reply #26 on: 00:34:41, 09-02-2008 » |
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I do have hazel eyes, reader.
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MabelJane
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« Reply #27 on: 00:38:51, 09-02-2008 » |
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They look more green than hazel to me, reader.
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« Reply #28 on: 00:42:11, 09-02-2008 » |
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Probably Don Quixote, i'm afraid...  |
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« Reply #29 on: 01:06:16, 09-02-2008 » |
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Probably Durtal in Huysmans' La Bas and En Route.
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