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From today's discussion with the delightful Bee:

Top five famous(ish) literary characters you would have liked to marry/be involved with?

I have only got to two. Seymour Glass, OBVIOUSLY. Am pondering the others. I fell hard for Billy from the Regeneration trilogy, but I can't see marrying him.

My trouble is that I tend to fall for tragically brilliant villains who oppress the protagonists in subtle intellectual ways. Casaubon. Dean Priest. Clever men who are very bad for you. I am, by type, the noble but misled sidekick to the villain, the one who adores him but either betrays him for the cause of Good or is sacrificed for his escape.

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Comments

[penelopesque.livejournal.com]

I always imagine myself as a second rate bad substitute for whoever the character loved in the book so I'm always like - None of them! I want to be first!!

I mean who wants to end up like Isabella Linton?

[radiantfracture]

I don't think anyone but Catherine could deal with Heathcliff. The rest of us haven't a hope. I'd be too alarmed to try.

You make an interesting point. I wonder if it's easier to pick characters who aren't well-matched in their respective texts?

I can't help thinking I'd be better for Seymour than whoever it was he married, assuming she had a name. For some reason I think it's Miriam. [Googles] Muriel. I was close.

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[penelopesque.livejournal.com]

I suppose one could save King Arthur from that whole Guinevere debacle.

And Seymour from Muriel.

[penelopesque.livejournal.com]

As a pre-teen I was quite partial to Edmund in the Narnia books.

[radiantfracture]

Interesting! What was his appeal?

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[foxymuffins.livejournal.com]

i heart your posts

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I heart your icon.

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[inlandsea.livejournal.com]

> I am, by type, the noble but misled sidekick to the villain, the one who adores him but either betrays him for the cause of Good or is sacrificed for his escape.

Perhaps it is time for the leopard to change his shorts?

I don't believe that you are only this. I think you are also the dashing, slightly muddled academic/artist who inspires love and creativity in others. Preferably in well worn, slightly older and very intelligent others of the male persuasion.

I'm just saying.

[radiantfracture]

Well, this is just delightful.

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Hmm, this is interesting given the eventuals.

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[inlandsea.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, three of my top five would have to be Edmond Dantes, Dr Doolittle and Thursday Next.