Choose literary characters to describe you/your life

Started by merithyn, March 28, 2014, 09:50:30 PM

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PDH

#15
March 29, 2014, 09:35:38 AM
Probably the writing on a packet of sugar that is in the little cup next to the napkin holder at an all night diner.  You know the real sugar, not the yellow or blue packets, but the sugar packet.  It is a bit crumpled, with a stain on one corner, like someone wanted to put it in their coffee but thought better of it and so it got jammed back into the cup.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

11B4V

#16
March 29, 2014, 09:56:10 AM
Cat in the Hat
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Savonarola

#17
March 29, 2014, 12:40:50 PM
Yossarian
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Queequeg

#18
March 29, 2014, 12:55:54 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Capetan Mihali

#19
March 29, 2014, 03:29:30 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 29, 2014, 05:27:29 AM
Probably Ignatius J. Reilly.

:huh:  It's obviously Razkolnikov.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Eddie Teach

#20
March 29, 2014, 03:37:45 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on March 29, 2014, 03:29:30 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 29, 2014, 05:27:29 AM
Probably Ignatius J. Reilly.

:huh:  It's obviously Razkolnikov.

Pun aside, he fits Ide better.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

mongers

#21
March 29, 2014, 03:38:01 PM
Haven't read enough books.  :blush:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Razgovory

#22
March 29, 2014, 03:55:40 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on March 29, 2014, 03:29:30 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 29, 2014, 05:27:29 AM
Probably Ignatius J. Reilly.

:huh:  It's obviously Razkolnikov.

While certainly disturbed, he's just not that funny.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ideologue

#23
March 29, 2014, 04:29:31 PM
QuoteRaskolnikov is a young ex-student of law living in extreme poverty in Saint Petersburg. He lives in a tiny garret which he rents, although due to a lack of funds has been avoiding payment for quite some time (he claims the room aggravates his depression). He sleeps on a couch using old clothes as a pillow, and due to lack of money eats very rarely, although the landlady sometimes sends her servant into his room with food. He is frequently referred to as a former student because he doesn't have the money to finish his education. Emotionally, physically (due to lack of food) and financially stressed, his behaviour in public becomes progressively more erratic through the book. Raskolnikov fluctuates between extremes of altruism and apathy. He is described by the narrator as "extremely handsome" and many other characters in the work state that he is very intelligent, though generally disliked by fellow students.

:)

So Crime and Punishment is a precursor to Rope?  Cool.
Kinemalogue
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Capetan Mihali

#24
March 29, 2014, 04:39:19 PM
It's too bad they didn't have 99 kopek 30-packs of Samuil's Club cookies back in 19th c. Saint Petersburg.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

dps

#25
March 29, 2014, 06:47:51 PM
Charlie Brown

grumbler

#26
March 31, 2014, 08:28:40 AM
Darth Vader
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

LaCroix

#27
March 31, 2014, 08:30:45 AM
with all this technology around, there's not enough time for books

alfred russel

#28
March 31, 2014, 08:36:10 AM
Meri, this is a good thread idea.

I can't think of one. Perhaps this is a failing of literature? It seems there are a lot of representations of exceptional people, and average people, and down and out people, but not necessarily those that are somewhat between categories. Especially in a modern context.

If I wanted to be a smartass, I would say Alfred Russel was most like Jesus. What was said was generally non controversial, the general message would get little argument, scant biographical information was provided, but in the end it was all bullshit.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Neil

#29
March 31, 2014, 12:10:22 PM
Speaker-to-Animals
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.
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