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Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Tue December 06, 2016 12:25 am
by Simple Torture
There's also a short-story version of Swamplandia! in Karen Russell's book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, if you can find that; it's called "Ava Wrestles the Alligator."
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Thu December 08, 2016 4:35 pm
by epilogue
I was talking to my wife about this and mentioned that I didn't think I had any fictional role models. She immediately said, "Pfffft. Um, Chandler Bing. And Jean-Luc Picard. No fictional role models. Please."
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Thu December 08, 2016 6:11 pm
by MissYouAllDay
Can we pick real people who have appeared in works of fiction? If so, I pick Bill Clinton.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Thu December 08, 2016 6:42 pm
by Simple Torture
MissYouAllDay wrote:Can we pick real people who have appeared in works of fiction? If so, I pick Bill Clinton.
In Contact?
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Thu December 08, 2016 6:56 pm
by epilogue
I guess Batman, too. I did look up to Batman. So, there you go. Batman, Chandler Bing and Captain Picard.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Fri December 09, 2016 1:39 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Fri December 09, 2016 1:39 am
by Simple Torture
tragabigzanda wrote:Chandler Bing? Wtf Joey?
I had to look up who that was. I don't mention that to sound cool but, rather, to point out how clueless I am.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Fri December 09, 2016 1:40 am
by LoathedVermin72
Yeah, could I be any more of a house?
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Fri December 09, 2016 2:25 am
by Bammer
That one guy's mom who goes to college.
Garth Algar.
William Wallace.
Johnny Utah.
Chest Rockwell.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 12:14 pm
by BurtReynolds
Manuel Venator (The Anarch),
Odysseus,
Howard Roark,
Nietzsche's Zarathustra,
Agent Smith,
The Grand Inquisitor,
Daniel Plainview,
Sisyphus
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 1:25 pm
by JuanHamm
Dunbar
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 2:40 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
96583UP wrote:Hal O. Caust
I don't know why I laughed at this.
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 4:21 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:96583UP wrote:Hal O. Caust
I don't know why I laughed at this.
I don't either
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 4:25 pm
by JuanHamm
epilogue wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:96583UP wrote:Hal O. Caust
I don't know why I laughed at this.
I don't either
I know
Re: Your Role Models in Fiction
Posted: Sun March 06, 2022 4:28 pm
by epilogue
JuanHamm wrote:epilogue wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:96583UP wrote:Hal O. Caust
I don't know why I laughed at this.
I don't either
I know
Don't tell him!