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That AL Kennedy, who was on with Joan Bakewell earlier this week, is of this ilk already perhaps. Flatness of recent eps reflects the times, but AL is cooking imho, and in dark William Trevor territory
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I noticed one of our 'guests' looking at this earlier, so I thought I'd drag it out from the 120 days cupboard. Perhaps some Members who have joined up since March might want to chip in? I've just spent a rather enjoyable time reading it through again. It raised a few smiles.
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I think I'm going to start calling pim_derks Pym Derks!
I always identified quite closely with Moses Herzog (the Bellow version, not the one who makes a brief cameo in Ulysses!). But I probably said that somewhere above.
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« Reply #153 on: 11:22:44, 06-10-2008 » |
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As I've been away I've only just found this thread, will read it right through soon.
I'm the French Lieutenant's Woman.
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« Reply #155 on: 12:30:21, 06-10-2008 » |
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Mrs Dalloway. But poorer. and happier I hope! Today i'm mostly feeling like Moll Hackabout (not strictly literary, but that's how narratives go sometimes). Now, where's the gin? |
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« Reply #156 on: 13:50:50, 06-10-2008 » |
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Mrs Dalloway. But poorer. and happier I hope! I suppose "Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz" would be more avatar-appropriate, but I'm not that happy. Nobody's that happy. Except possibly Anthea Turner. |
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« Reply #157 on: 14:06:00, 06-10-2008 » |
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If I'm reading a good book (which seems depressingly infrequently, these days), I almost always identify with the protagonist. So right now I feel a bit like Malone in Malone dies.
I feel almost like Malone is a kind of pessimistic alter-ego of Tristram or Walter Shandy, so perhaps I am rather Tristram, totally identifying with Malone as a kind of future self.
When I was younger, I always identified quite a lot with Samwise Gamgee.
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I suppose "Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz" would be more avatar-appropriate, but I'm not that happy. Nobody's that happy. I think this can only be the moment to draw your attention to this gem. Except possibly Anthea Turner.
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When I was younger, I always identified quite a lot with Samwise Gamgee.
I had to look up who that was... I've tried on a few characters for size but haven't yet found one that fits. However: I was rereading Fowles' The Magus recently, and remarked to myself that when I last read it (at 23 or so) I was only a couple of years younger than Nicholas Urfe, and that I would no doubt have behaved exactly as he did if I found myself in the same position, and would have learned as little as he seemed to have done from the experience, and for that reason I remember back then not realising what an unbearable p***k he was. Maybe he would have "evolved" subsequently to the events of the book. I did, I think. |
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« Reply #160 on: 19:32:37, 06-10-2008 » |
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This thread is great fun....I'm about to start a "Which cartoon character are you?" thread in celebration!
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« Reply #161 on: 20:23:18, 08-10-2008 » |
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This thread is great fun....I'm about to start a "Which cartoon character are you?" thread in celebration! Now that's a good question, Jan! I'm thinking now...  |
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« Reply #162 on: 22:28:45, 08-10-2008 » |
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Since this was resurrected, I've been struggling to think who I am. I'm sure I made a subconscious link with the very earliest story I remember, from when I was about 5 - a children's version of the story of Odysseus. However, I cannot link my life to witches turning people into pigs, a cyclops and sheep, a beautiful goddess who convinces me I'm only spending 5 minutes on an island..... etc. Even worse, I think Don Zhivago's recent pictures have made me realise I am not exactly Odyssean in physique. I may have to read some Joyce.... Tommo  |
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