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    Cool literary protagonists

    Which literary protagonist would you hang out with, and why?

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    Hmm characters i would like to hang out with...definitely Ivan from The Brothers Karamazov. I would want a similar conversation to the Rebellion chapter in the book. Levin from Anna Karenina because he is beyond cool. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde because it would be terrifying. Esmeralda from Notre-Dame de Paris so I could try and woo her. Madame Bovary so I could shout at her and hit her with a stick.

    Can't think of any others right now but I'm sure some more will pop in my head later on.
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    Ernest Hemingway's alter egos, like Jake in Fiesta. Just all that lazing around cool bars with artists and the like. Paris in the early days and all the rest of it.

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    Hanging with Tristram Shady would be a fun time! I'd be interested in hearing these tangents unfold....I'd also think it'd be interesting to hang with Timon of Athens, virtually for the same reason...tangents unfolding, etc.
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    lord henry, charles swann

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    Squire Weston from Tom Jones, all that huntin' shootin' fishin'

    Robinson Crusoe, I'd like to stay at his gaff for a week or two.

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    I think I'd like to hang out with Randall Flagg - a short career at the top, but a hell of a lot of fun.

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    Ivan from TBK, as one poster said above the Rebellion conversation would be quite interesting...

    Bernando Soares, from The Book of Disquiet as discussing the tedious nature of life would be just great..

    the main character from Borges Garden of the Forking Paths.. i forget the name though..

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    Don Juan - I'll take Moliere's though, instead of Byron's, or perhaps La Ponte's (Mozart's).

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    Quentin Compson. He seems so interesting and intelligent.
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    My favorites are Ferdinand Bardamu('Journey to the End of the Night'), Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov('Crime and Punishment'), Antoine Roquentin('Nausea'), the Underground Man('Notes from Underground'), and the narrator of Knut Hamsun's 'Hunger'. They're all intelligent, somewhat misanthropic, and have a lot to say about existence.

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    I've always said that I would love hanging out with Sherlock Holms (as long as he wasn't depressed or coke'd-out at the time). Ah, the ideal man. Strong, smart, compassionate (like when he let that guy go at the end of The Blue Carbuncle).
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    Although I'd have to buy, I'd like to have a night on the town in Dublin with Sebastian Dangerfield from The Ginger Man and the nameless narrator from At Swim-Two-Birds.
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    Sebastian Flyte, if he paid for my drinks

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    I suppose Phileas Fogg will do...

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