kizolk
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 4:56:44 GMT
Is this character usually considered a good guy? Hard to say. If I had to choose, I'd say more good than bad.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 27, 2023 5:19:17 GMT
Is there at least one film version of this novel?
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 27, 2023 5:39:53 GMT
Is he a dandy?
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 10:24:23 GMT
Is there at least one film version of this novel? Yes.
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 10:24:43 GMT
I think you can say that, but not sure.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 27, 2023 12:17:39 GMT
I'm finding it hard to think of a character from a British or Irish 19th-century novel that one would expect everyone to know that isn't from Dickens, Austen, a Brontë or Hardy, which probably means I'm missing something obvious. Trollope is unlikely, as would George Eliot be, even if she hadn't been a woman and therefore not the author. The Prisoner of Zenda was written in the 19th century (had to check this), and several films were made, but although people remember that Ruritania is the fictional kingdom in it (sometimes), nobody reads it nowadays, including me. Although I have a vague idea that it's still popular in Pakistan, of all places, so it may be one of those things more popular with non-native speakers.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 27, 2023 12:19:55 GMT
In the course of writing that out, something obvious that I had left out did occur to me; the hope that this would happen was one of the reasons I wrote it out. I don't know whether I'm right, but I suspect that Pacifica has the same idea in mind.
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 20:08:35 GMT
Well, try said idea, then!
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 27, 2023 20:16:13 GMT
No, Pacifica gave me the idea, really, thinking about it. Also, as I've said, the journey not the arrival matters. I might be wrong about it being the same idea, but that adds an additional puzzle, and I'm all in favour of more puzzles.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 27, 2023 20:37:25 GMT
I don't have any particular idea, really, so go ahead.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 27, 2023 20:58:04 GMT
I'm too depressed about being wrong now.
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 21:23:29 GMT
Actually I thought Pacifica was indeed thinking of the correct character when she asked about dandies.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 27, 2023 21:45:34 GMT
It can't be Dorian Gray because you said he wasn't the main character and his name didn't feature in the title.
I also doubt it can be Dorian Gray's annoying friend the talkative philosopher Lord Something... unless we have really different appreciations of what it means for a character to be "more good than bad".
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 27, 2023 21:46:41 GMT
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Post by kizolk on Sept 27, 2023 22:25:55 GMT
It's not Harry indeed.
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