April 27, 2007

Characters

I got this from Super Fast Reader:

Name up to three characters . . .

1. You wish were real so you could meet them:

Nelson Denoon, from Mating
Harriet, from Harriet the Spy
Ilse, from the Emily series, by LM Montgomery - I'd love to meet Emily, too - but Ilse is really the one I'd love to check out in person
Claude Collier, from Lives of the Saints
Owen Meany, and also Hester the Molester, from Prayer for Owen Meany
Mr. Rochester, from Jane Eyre
Molly Bloom, from Ulysses
Sydney Carton, from Tale of Two Cities
Charles Wallace, from Wrinkle in Time

2. You would like to be:

Polly - from the "time" series of Madeleine L'Engle - I especially would like to be her in House Like a Lotus (excerpt here)

Petrova from Ballet Shoes

I'd like to be one of the kids who attends Hogwarts - I don't care which one

I'd like to be Jo March (but then again - who doesn't)

I'd also like to be Queequeg


3. Who scare you:

First and foremost: Cathy from East of Eden (wrote about that monster here)

And I'm gonna go along with what Annie said: Cordelia from Cat's Eye (shivers)

Miss Havisham scares the shit out of me. I never want to go into that room.

Mr. Charrington, from 1984 - I've had nightmares about that guy

Posted by sheila
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Meet:
Lady Brett Ashley (from The Sun Also Rises)...and I hope she looks like Ava Gardner.
Vivian Sternwood, hoping she looks like Lauren Bacall
Nora Charles, hoping she looks like Myrna Loy.
Hmmmm...a theme appears.


Be:
Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler's indestructible hero
Frank Hardy, the older and more thoughtful Hardy Boy
Batman. Yeah, I said it. As I like to tell my wife, they are not comic books, they are "graphic novels."

Fear:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Randall Flagg, the walkin' dude
Injun Joe from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Posted by: Eric the...bald at April 27, 2007 10:01 AM

Oh man - just the name "Randall Flagg" gives me shivers.

Posted by: red at April 27, 2007 10:12 AM

When I read "Mr. Rochester, from Jane Eyre," the first thing I thought was "yeah, I want to meet Orson Welles, too." I'm such an idiot.

Posted by: Emily at April 27, 2007 10:54 AM

Emily - hm. Weird - check out Self-styled Siren's latest post.

Coincidence???

Posted by: red at April 27, 2007 10:56 AM

What a great post! Oh, that picture of him! He was so awesome in that movie.

Posted by: Emily at April 27, 2007 11:29 AM

Oh, I love Polly almost as much as I love Meg Murray--which makes sense. I'd love to be Polly in Cyprus...

Posted by: Annie at April 27, 2007 7:06 PM

Really fun answers!!! And kudos to you for not sticking to just 3 like I did. I usually break the rules on memes like these but didn't this time....I don't know why.

Posted by: Carl V. at April 28, 2007 2:43 PM

Oh, man, Miss Havisham! I forgot how creepy she seemed to me as a 9th grader. Even creepier on fire. Ugh.

Posted by: Kate P at April 28, 2007 11:10 PM