tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post8918430538404039789..comments2023-10-08T03:32:33.151-04:00Comments on bookeywookey: One man's eccentric is another man's mother...Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-5356964240885606142008-02-01T11:15:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:15:00.000-05:00I hadn't thought of it until Matt mentioned Dicken...I hadn't thought of it until Matt mentioned Dickens' characters leading a life outside their books, but one of my favourite eccentrics is Miss Havisham in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books.<BR/><BR/>Got to re-read the Salinger books. I know they are there somewhere...Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-23011818010998192982008-02-01T08:01:00.000-05:002008-02-01T08:01:00.000-05:00M - I've yet to read The Pickwick Papers but it's ...M - I've yet to read The Pickwick Papers but it's on my list to get to one of these days. I don't know if it's Dickens specifically or the British in general who seem not to merely tolerate eccentricity but to celebrate it.<BR/><BR/>C & J - Doesn't she just make you want to scream?Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-16498614917254108842008-02-01T06:49:00.000-05:002008-02-01T06:49:00.000-05:00I could have killed Mrs. Jellyby! However, Mrs. Fl...I could have killed Mrs. Jellyby! However, Mrs. Flite I quite liked...course we're moving from eccentric to insane at that point. Dickens does seem to create a wealth of eccentricity, doesn't he?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-71078133679618245902008-01-31T20:26:00.000-05:002008-01-31T20:26:00.000-05:00Mrs Jellyby needed a good smack.Mrs Jellyby needed a good smack.Chrisbookaramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11972547663609480210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-51741814460206722672008-01-31T20:11:00.000-05:002008-01-31T20:11:00.000-05:00I second on the Dickens characters. The characters...I second on the Dickens characters. The characters are among the most memorable in English literature; certainly their names are. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs Gamp, Charles Darnay, Oliver Twist, Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Samuel Pickwick, Miss Havisham, Wackford Squeers and many others are so well known and can be believed to be living a life outside the novels that their stories have been continued by other authors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com