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    How many times have you read your favourite book?

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    Those are actually literary elements, devices, personifications, and tropes (and I love your choice of the shop in The Golden Bowl)...but not actual characters. Yes, arguments can be made for anything to be a character--such as Middlemarch in Middlemarch--but i was referring to traditional characters...as in people.

    So, How many characters in American literature qualify as "iconic"?...and which ones and why. Death in Dickinson, by the way, does qualify under both definitions.

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    You didn't finish the second half of my question:


    So, How many characters in American literature qualify as "iconic"?...and which ones and why?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tonywalt View Post
    How many times have you read your favourite book?
    Only twice. There's just too much else to read.

    How many times have you accidentally capsized a boat (including canoes)?

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    Never, I think. Three times recently, on purpose, for a kayaking class (if that counts).

    What's your favorite book Pompey?

    How many times have you had a panic attack, or come close?

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    I don't think I've had one. Even when I was really near death, I just kept thinking about how to save myself. Looking back, I think it was more irrational denial of what was happening than detached reasoning, but I didn't panic just the same. And I've never had an irrational "panic attack" as a kind of general anxiety.

    How many times have you hit a bullseye with an arrow?

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    None! Not that my aim is especially bad, I just haven't tried enough.

    How many friends have you grown apart from? (continuing the glum theme)

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    Taking 20 years ago as a baseline, all but my wife. One or two of those have a bitter story behind them, but most were just part of a healthy going forward with life.

    I'm thinking of buying a small property in the western part of the US for when my wife and I are in the country. What state do you recommend?

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    E: Six friends, I think. I've never been to the States, but from the west coast I might choose Seattle.

    How many favourite books can you list?

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    All but three friends, though I maintain acquaintanceships with a few others.

    How many really serious relationships have you been in so far?
    So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether

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    downtown Santa Barbara, California. Let's hang. Alternately weed will soon be legal in Oregon.

    No relationships and about twenty books.

    Same book question.

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    If you mean really serious romantic relations, there were two, one of which ended in marriage. If you mean, um, just "serious", I suppose it depends what you count. More than ten, less than twenty is what I tell myself. (That's not much for someone who went to college in the seventies).

    Books are beyond counting.

    Knowing what you know of me from the site, would I be happy in Texas?

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    How many people in here can help Pompey Bum out with his decision?

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    Oh I'll make the decision. I'm just a bit iffy about Texas, despite the lack of state taxes.

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