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Peason in Back in The Jug Agane
I must have appeared as Fotherington Thomas, but I didn't feel like him. It came to me over night that when young I was much struck by: Mole in Wind in the Willows (Very much so, and I still do.) Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit And particularly Gollum in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Fortunately I do not feel like him now. I don't think I was a happy kid |
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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 #31 on: 11:51:19, 09-02-2008 » |
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Probably Dr Woland in "The Master & Margarita" - a prankster of serious intent, who puts on shows with unexpected results.
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #32 on: 11:59:10, 09-02-2008 » |
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Sorry it's not EH Shephard.
So I should think. (Disney, shudder...) Thanks for the thought, MabelJane. |
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At the age of 17, when I read Saul Bellow's Herzog, I felt a strong sense of identification with its flawed hero Moses E. Herzog. (The name is borrowed from a very minor character - one tiny passing reference - in Joyce's Ulysses, although no one else ever seems to have noticed that.) I'm an admirer of Saul Bellow's work. I didn't know that the name of Herzog was borrowed from Ulysses. I believe that Bellow was an admirer of the works of André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog. I don't know if I actually am a character from a novel but the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee's Youth is a quite accurate portrait of Mr Pim Derks. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #34 on: 14:17:51, 09-02-2008 » |
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When I read Vanity Fair as an 18 year old, I thought I was just like Dobbin: at least up until he joined the army - I could never have done that. Otherwise, I'd have to say David Copperfield to a large extent, even though I didn't have any of his awful childhood experiences (although school seemed like the bottle washing factory sometimes  ). I particularly shared his feelings when he got his first place of his own. His own key in his pocket and the ability to invite round anyone he chose. |
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« Reply #35 on: 15:16:45, 09-02-2008 » |
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I've identified with Katy in What Katy Did and What Katy did at School since I was ten. Well-intentioned, apt to get into what the book calls "scrapes", given to dreaming but not doing much about it, the one at school who always invented the games and persuaded other children to join in (usually ending in trouble), somewhat scatter-brained, and basically very proper and virtuous.
There's a good bit of Eeyore in me, too. ("What are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.")
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« Reply #36 on: 22:57:01, 09-02-2008 » |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #37 on: 23:00:53, 09-02-2008 » |
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Virginial Woolf's Orlando, or Orlando the Marmalade Cat? .jpg) |
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« Reply #38 on: 23:32:33, 09-02-2008 » |
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Or Ariosto's? Virginial Woolf's Orlando A typo? |
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« Reply #39 on: 23:44:32, 09-02-2008 » |
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Virgin wolf's orlando.
Is it his thirtieth or thirtythird birthday with the transmogrificationalthingummy?
I'm thirty this year.
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« Reply #40 on: 09:47:30, 10-02-2008 » |
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Virginial Woolf's Orlando A typo? It was a typo, but I think I'll leave it. I may have invented a new adjective. |
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« Reply #41 on: 11:11:33, 10-02-2008 » |
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I don't believe I've ever read a book and thought "that's me", but there are some characters or aspects of characters I've particularly related to; Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, Holden Caulfield, Gregor Samsa (not for too long thankfully), and a little of both Schlegel sisters from Howards End, despite them being both very different characters.
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Gregor Samsa (not for too long thankfully),
That's an excellent one, Catherine... the Jungian nightmare of discovering one has become (or always was) repulsive to all mankind. |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #43 on: 11:50:24, 10-02-2008 » |
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Holden Caulfield Oh yes. For FAR too many years...  |
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