12-12-2003, 04:54 PM | #37 |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Posts: 195
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My absolute all-time favorite character from any book: Captain Yossarian from 'Catch-22' (Joseph Heller)
Some other greats: Winston Smith, '1984' (George Orwell) Lola Hart, 'Random Acts of Senseless Violence' (Jack Womack) Eliot Rosewater, 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' (Kurt Vonnegut) Many others I can't really think of right now...
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A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot |