Hello there. I’m very impressed by the efforts of sundry and many of you with the six degrees of Francis Bacon. Your efforts are muchmost more elegant than mine!
I was browsing the internet (what a fine thing! So big!) when I happened upon this list of the favouritemost characters from fiction in the 20th Century: [
www.npr.org]
All good and well this may be but what of the classics, our own area of joy and glorylove?
I was going to propose that we vote on our own topmost classical characters, but then I started thinking about the bestmost villains, love affairs, plot twists, fight scenes and endings and things like that.
So this is my idea. Why don’t we create the perfect book, a Frankensteinish novel conjured from the best bits of classics? (Any of things from cave paintings up to 1900 counts as classic in my book, if yule excuse the pun.)
Here are some starter categories, why not start making our own perfect books from these?
Perfect Protagonist
Perfect Villain
Perfect Love interest
Perfect Plot twist
Perfect Ending
Perfect Fight/Battle
Perfect page 49
Please throw suggestions at me and I will try to catch. Also, if other categories spring like springs to your frothing minds, please do add them.
For starterings, I would go for Alice as protagonist, with Bill Sykes as Villain, Beowulf as love interest, by all accounts he is deliciously rugged… over to you folks and folkettes.
YG
Niebla