Which fictional character do you wish you were and which one are you actually?

Wish: Seymour Glass Fear: Billy Bunter Visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

wish: Han Solo fear: Chewbacca :-) * P * :-)

Wow, Tom. That's revealing. You wish you were a dead genius paedofile and you fear you're overweight and privileged? I wish I was: Tetsuo Shima I fear I am: Ash Ketchum

wish: Howard Roard, R.P. McMurphy fear: Ignatius Reilly

wish: Harry Potter fear: Ron Weasley :-) * P * :-)

I wish I was Lara Croft. I fear I am Elvira Gulch.

Wish - miss piggy fear: gonzo wish: wilma flintstone fear: fred flintstone

wish: Brad fear: Arm Wish: George Fear: Rosemary Wish: : Russel Fear: Scare Wish: Depp Fear: Rotten

Wish: Rick Blaine Fear: Signor Ferrari

Wish: Gambit Fear: Kilgore Trout

wish: Arwen fear: Gollum

Seymour wasn't a paedophile, Rokkit, and being dead isn't a problem because he never existed. I know nothing about privilege, but I certainly ate all the pies. Visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

wish: Judge Dredd fear: Otto Sump :-) * P * :-)

A Perfect Day For Bananafish heavily implies Seymour is a raging paedo. Admitedly, it's a fictionalised account of his suicide, written by his brother, Buddy, but that's even more suggestive. And obviously, both are fictionalised characters by J.D. Salinger, whose obvious fondness for preteens has raised many eyebrows, shall we say. So, in summary, Seymour Glass touches kids.

Ah, I see. Thanks, Rokkit. Visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

I wish I was Adrian Healy in The Liar. I fear I am Piggy in Lord of the Flies.

I think I am *actually* the character Bilgewater in the novel of the same name by Jane Gardam.

I wish I was Trilby. I fear I am the kraken.

Awright, awright, sheesh. Note that Arwen is kissing Aragorn, aka Viggo Mortensen. Hence the wish: http://www.very-faery.com/costume/images/Arwen/Coronation/Arwen%20Aragor... But rather: http://tofuhut.racknine.net/pics/gollum.gif

Okay, Adrian Healy is the main character in Stephen Fry's first novel The Liar. God knows why I find myself identifying with him, as one reviewer on Amazon describes him thus: 'The hero, an inveterate liar, is the source of much of the novels humour, but beneath his witty comebacks and tall-tales we glimpse a fascinating creature who surrounds himself with fantasy to mask his essential hollowness' Piggy from Lord of the Flies is 'Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires.' Bilgewater 'Marigold Green calls herself "hideous, quaint, and barmy." Other people call her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage thought the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence.' I grew up on the grounds of a boy's care home and read this book and couldn't quite believe the many similarities between me and her.

Seymour Glass is oldest of a family of child prodigies. He features, along with the various other Glass siblings, in a series of short stories by JD Salinger. Seymour is the wisest, the clearest of sight, but because of his sensitivity the strangest and most troubled. In the first of the stories about Seymour, A Perfect Day for Banana Fish, he commits suicide shortly after getting married. He is still suffering from the symptoms of shell-shock after recently returning from the war. The superficiality of his wife's conversation on the phone with her mother is contrasted in the story with the guilelessness and innocence of the small child Seymour meets on the beach. On his return to the hotel, Seymour shoots himself in the head. As in The Catcher in the Rye the grown up world is seen as corrupted and phony, while the child's world is seen as playful, imaginative and spontaneous. But the point is that no-one knows why Seymour kills himself. Because Bananafish is the first of the stories all the later stories are read in the knowledge of what Seymour will be come to do to himself. Billy Bunter is a very fat public schoolboy, pilloried for his greed. Visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

I wish I was Ani from 'The Goose Girl' by Shannon Hale. She is brave and beautiful and has hair like span (long and blonde and very straight) and meets a beautiful Prince called Geric. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1582349908/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-2101371-357... (yup, that's her, sitting by the tree) I fear I am maybe something more like Susan from Arthur Ransom's 'Swallows and Amazons' (and the others in the series). She's very nice, but she's the one who's always worrying and running around after the others in case they break their legs falling out of trees. She's the one that the parents place in charge of proceedings. She's the one who masterminds the mincing of corned beef for dinner.

Pemmican, if you don't mind. Visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

Sorry. Pemmican. Honestly, who MINCES pemmican? You'd only have to show it the back of a spoon and it'd squish right down. Susan was a weirdo.

Wish: Morvern Callar Fear: Grady Tripp

Slim from To Have and Have Not Eddie from To Have and Have Not

Further explanation: Gambit is a Cajun thief, super-charming and roguish. He can also charge objects up with kinetic energy and make them explode. I wrote a poem about him: http://www.abctales.com/node/519208 Kilgore Trout is a hack novelist who turns up in Kurt Vonnegut stories. Sometimes he's been vaguely successful, but mostly he's unknown, and a bit of a sorry tramp.

Wish: Kilgore Trout Fear: Hermann Hermann from Nabokov's despair Come on, JC, you got to hand it to Kilgore. He's cool, except in Galapagos, when he's dead. I love the idea he's written a billion stories but only really been published in porn. He's the ultimate in my idea of 'writer cool'. Actually, I think this came up at the last ABC event, in a conversation I was having, briefly. Some people see 'writer cool' as the guy / girl in the corner of a bar looking moody with a notebook etc etc . Others see 'writer cool' as smooth-talking intellectual with a witticsm for every occasion. Me, I think 'writer cool' is Kilgore Trout. And I'm not the only one. In my survey of two people at work, 100% either agree or strongly agree that Trout is cool. In a writer kind of way. Enzo.. www.thedevilbetweenus.com

I wish I was like Fevvers in 'Nights at the Circus', I fear I am more like a deranged Mrs Dalloway.

BTW - may have mentioned this before but I love the X men poems you've done. Enzo.. www.thedevilbetweenus.com

Wish - Paul Varjak (writer, kept man and ultimate winner of Audrey Hepburn's heart in Breakfast at Tiffany's) Fear - Jay Gatsby (rich, outwardly successful, (despite the fact I am neither) spent far too much of his life worrying about and loving totally the wrong girl). Seymour Glass was so not a paedo by the way.

I do think Trout is pretty cool, Enzo. It's just that I suspect myself of only thinking he's cool because he has failed in a similar way to how I expect to fail. A lot of work going nowhere. It's like Leonard Cohen. He's a great writer, and admirable in so many ways, but what really makes him cool for me is that he's felt miserable and confused and panicked for most of his life. I dunno if that makes any sense.

It's hard to say who I'd like to be, but it might be someone like Inspector Maigret from the Georges Simenon novels. I'm actually a lot like George Smiley from the Le Carre novels--a clever guy who has pretty well made a dog's breakfast of his life.

I wish I was Pinkie Brown from "Brighton Rock" - elegant, gangster, mistrusting of the people around him, has enough sense to steer clear of romance, amoral. I fear I am Charlie Brown.... It is very odd, in all my fondest daydreams I'm able to excise the fatal streak of niceness from my personality. I'd be a really sound, happy person if I could stop being nice. It's that Amis line about Keith Talent "Keith loved everything about himself except his redeeming features"

I wish I was like Captain Ahab (troubled darkly brooding obsessive with one leg), or Batman (troubled darkly brooding obsessive millionaire who fights crime), or Creasy from Man On Fire (troubled darkly brooding obsessive lethal killer, good with kids). The rationale behind this is that obsessives are never bored, boring, but never bored. I'm probably a lot more like Dilbert. Three times in the last week I have daydreamed about loosing a leg.

Interesting: I have always wanted to be Batman. I thought of posting that answer, but I eliminated comic books from the definition of 'fictional,' though for no real reason. The only problem with Batman is that he doesn't seem to be having a lot of fun.

Wish I was: Thomas Hardy's Tess (http://www.needcoffee.com/html/dvd/images/totdurbervilles1.jpg) Tragically flawed in only her beauty, innocence and strength, evetually loved by the beautiful Angel Clare (may skip the gruesome ending tho) Yet fear I may be: Lucy from Narnia (http://www.breathecast.com/files/news/news_20051209_lionwitchnarnia.jpg) Always running after everyone whining and trying to join in the fun, getting myself into compromising situations with Fauns...

I wouldn't mind being in a compromising situation with Mr Tumnus.

Bearing in mind that James McAvoy is merely Disney's over-romanticised interpretation and this is the real deal... http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0211762/Mr.%20Tumnus.jpg

Errrmm, no I'll have the James McAvoy edition please.

The charecter who most relates to me would be gordie from Stephen King's story "The Body", A.K.A "Stand by Me" Along with Teddy, I've even tried train dodging once. Scared me half to death. My fear would be I'm Frodo from Lord of the Rings.

http://www.freewebs.com/michaeljamestreacy/index.htm Wish: Quasimodo ( I reckon Esmeralda was in love with him) Fear: Postman Pat ( I've got this 'look'... and this 'black and white cat')

I'd like to be Huckleberry Finn.

Wish: Henry Chinaski Fear: Augustus Gloop

I'd like to have been Warren Beaty's dick, or his right hand...no his dick. Can I be both? As it happens I was half-way there, I was/am a dick!

Wish: Homer Fear: Simpson