Five Fictional Characters Meme...
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1. Leave a comment to this post - specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter. (If you don't want a letter but feel like commenting anyway, feel free.)
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
[You don't have to play the game...and can just comment anyway. Also since I'm not a fan of following rules of memes...I'm adding one category.]
4. Name two favorite musicians whose names begin or end with the letter.
My letter was "L" which is not as easy as it looks. (I just realized they have to begin with the letter not end with it. Damn it. I can't use the Lannister's from Game of Thrones. Oh well, probably of the good.)
1. Lyra Silvertongue aka Belacqua from His Dark Materials by Philip K. Pullman. Lyra is the snarky, tough, fourteen year old heroine of Pullman's classic work of young adult fiction entitled His Dark Materials. She can give both Katniss Everdeen and Hermonine Granger a run for their money. Brains and resourcefulness combined. In the first novel of His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass, she embarks on a quest to save her best friend from the agents of the Authority, who have taken him for a horrific experiment. Only to find her parents are behind the experiments. Lyra separates from her parents, and embarks on a fight against an otherworldly power that is controlling her world, the Authority. It's been a while since I've read the novels, so my memory is understandably foggy on them. Lyra had this wonderful daemon who usually is a snow-white ermine but can change forms...Daemon's are the person's soul except you can see them and they are in animal form and can wander about and help the person.
2. Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysess - a quintessential everyman. Ulysess is basically just one day in the life of Leopold Bloom. He's the guy on the street. No great hero. No Ulysses. Just an average bloke who has the clap. At least I think he had the clap.
His wife's having an affair - hence the reason he has the clap. And he feels inadequate in oh so many ways, yet he lives his life the best way that he can. And in that respect at least he does feel rather heroic.
3. Lester Freeman - the Wire - another everyman. Lester is the wise old toy maker. Who no one pays much attention to. They pulled him from the pawn shop, where he'd been sent ages ago for bulking authority. He works the Wire, plays with it, manipulates it, and brings down an organization. He also in a tour de force in the final season aids and abets McNulty in creating a fictional serial killer to trick the press into pressuring the politicians to provide them with enough support to take down another, far worse drug lord.
If Bubbles is the heart of the Wire, Lester is the cynical edge...the ruthlessness, the Machiavellian Cop with the heart of Gold.
4. President Laura Rosyln - BattleStar Galatica
Laura was the school-teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer when her world was blown apart. The sole remaining member of her planet's government, Laura must become the leader of the human race. She must lead them to a new world. While Admiral Adama is clearly the leader of the military force, Laura holds the reigns. She keeps the government together.
And as the leader of her government is often faced with difficult and not always clear cut choices. Over the course of the four seasons, Laura becomes increasingly ruthless and Machiavellian in her struggle to lead humanity to a new home, a home that she may never live to see. Her story is both tragic and heroic and in my mind at least is the core or heart of the tale. My icon depicts Laura.
5. Lestate. The original Spike. Playboy extraordinaire. Anne Rice changed the
genre with his introduction into it. Prior to Lestate, vampires tended to be somewhat broody and lurking. Lestate didn't lurk, he danced and sang and made a ruckus.
Blond. Blue-eyed. A French Devil. And bi-sexual. Lestate loved the guys and the gals.
He was equal opportunity. His worst sin may have been creating a child vampire - one for which he pays dearly. Think Spike, but with less morals, and edgier. Also a tad bit older.
The original bad boy. Who sang to wake the dead. In this case, a centuries old Egyptian Queen who was literally the original vampire.
[I would have used Lymond, but that's his last name not his first, so I couldn't use him any more than I could the Lannisters.]
Two musicians:
* Lobi Traore
* Lenny Kravitiz
beer_good_foamy1. Leave a comment to this post - specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter. (If you don't want a letter but feel like commenting anyway, feel free.)
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
[You don't have to play the game...and can just comment anyway. Also since I'm not a fan of following rules of memes...I'm adding one category.]
4. Name two favorite musicians whose names begin or end with the letter.
My letter was "L" which is not as easy as it looks. (I just realized they have to begin with the letter not end with it. Damn it. I can't use the Lannister's from Game of Thrones. Oh well, probably of the good.)
1. Lyra Silvertongue aka Belacqua from His Dark Materials by Philip K. Pullman. Lyra is the snarky, tough, fourteen year old heroine of Pullman's classic work of young adult fiction entitled His Dark Materials. She can give both Katniss Everdeen and Hermonine Granger a run for their money. Brains and resourcefulness combined. In the first novel of His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass, she embarks on a quest to save her best friend from the agents of the Authority, who have taken him for a horrific experiment. Only to find her parents are behind the experiments. Lyra separates from her parents, and embarks on a fight against an otherworldly power that is controlling her world, the Authority. It's been a while since I've read the novels, so my memory is understandably foggy on them. Lyra had this wonderful daemon who usually is a snow-white ermine but can change forms...Daemon's are the person's soul except you can see them and they are in animal form and can wander about and help the person.
2. Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysess - a quintessential everyman. Ulysess is basically just one day in the life of Leopold Bloom. He's the guy on the street. No great hero. No Ulysses. Just an average bloke who has the clap. At least I think he had the clap.
His wife's having an affair - hence the reason he has the clap. And he feels inadequate in oh so many ways, yet he lives his life the best way that he can. And in that respect at least he does feel rather heroic.
3. Lester Freeman - the Wire - another everyman. Lester is the wise old toy maker. Who no one pays much attention to. They pulled him from the pawn shop, where he'd been sent ages ago for bulking authority. He works the Wire, plays with it, manipulates it, and brings down an organization. He also in a tour de force in the final season aids and abets McNulty in creating a fictional serial killer to trick the press into pressuring the politicians to provide them with enough support to take down another, far worse drug lord.
If Bubbles is the heart of the Wire, Lester is the cynical edge...the ruthlessness, the Machiavellian Cop with the heart of Gold.
4. President Laura Rosyln - BattleStar Galatica
Laura was the school-teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer when her world was blown apart. The sole remaining member of her planet's government, Laura must become the leader of the human race. She must lead them to a new world. While Admiral Adama is clearly the leader of the military force, Laura holds the reigns. She keeps the government together.
And as the leader of her government is often faced with difficult and not always clear cut choices. Over the course of the four seasons, Laura becomes increasingly ruthless and Machiavellian in her struggle to lead humanity to a new home, a home that she may never live to see. Her story is both tragic and heroic and in my mind at least is the core or heart of the tale. My icon depicts Laura.
5. Lestate. The original Spike. Playboy extraordinaire. Anne Rice changed the
genre with his introduction into it. Prior to Lestate, vampires tended to be somewhat broody and lurking. Lestate didn't lurk, he danced and sang and made a ruckus.
Blond. Blue-eyed. A French Devil. And bi-sexual. Lestate loved the guys and the gals.
He was equal opportunity. His worst sin may have been creating a child vampire - one for which he pays dearly. Think Spike, but with less morals, and edgier. Also a tad bit older.
The original bad boy. Who sang to wake the dead. In this case, a centuries old Egyptian Queen who was literally the original vampire.
[I would have used Lymond, but that's his last name not his first, so I couldn't use him any more than I could the Lannisters.]
Two musicians:
* Lobi Traore
* Lenny Kravitiz
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Date: 2012-04-07 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-07 01:00 pm (UTC)If you re-read Ulysses, pick the 1980s translation/edited version.
It's the most comprehensive. I sort of have most of it memorized because I did my undergrad thesis on it, and took not one but two courses on Joyce, with the Senior Seminar on Ulysses. I'll never forget the Seminar prof drawing a chart on the blackboard explaining the pissing contest between Stephen Daedulus and Leopold Bloom and the metaphorical significance of it. It was hilarious.
Laura Roslin is my favorite character in BSG. She has the best structured arc and Mary McDonnel plays her with perfection. (I also love Kara Thrace, but felt they hurt her arc in the last season by going the religious messenger route - although it does to a degree follow the original version of BSG, which sort of did the same thing with the character in a different way.)