Who Are YOU?

[Teresa]

Choose FIVE people (more if you must), dead or alive, famous or not, real or fictional, who define how you or others see YOU.  Everyone is a mixed bag of characters and personalities.  You don't have to take this too seriously - have fun with it.

 

I'll have to think about this for a while to come up with some characters of my own but this ought to make for some St. Patricks Day fun!

 

Borrow from literature, cartoons, myths or Hollywood!  Go crazy...(drink Guinness for inspiration)...

 

 

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!

[Teresa]

I'll have to Google all but Stephen Fry (love him). Happy Paddy's Paul.

[jkdavies]

ha ha Bernard Black ;) SO SO many wonderful lines...

[Teresa]

You DOG!!! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

[Bob Clay]

Oliver Twist ("gizzuz some more porridge ya gobshite")

Albert Einstein ("the square on the hypotenuse is equal to what ? not on a curved surface it aint pal")

Galileo ("house arrest ? ... house arrest ? ... on yer bike ya religious tosser ... ")

Descartes ("I drink, therefore Iam .. (my apologies to the Monty Python team for pinching their joke))

Hannibal Lektor ("Fava beans ? ... wot the fuck are fava beans ? .... never mind, give me the bottle of plonk)

:-)

[Teresa]

Okay, I thought about this over a couple of glasses of vino:

1) Josephine "Jo" March of Little Women
2) A Phoenix (I've risen from the ashes many-a-time)
3) Denys Finch Hattan of Out of Africa (Robert Redford's character)
4)Anais Nin (no comment)
5) The character of Rose in Titanic
6) Bugs Bunny (for good measure)

Now I'm takin' all my people downstairs for a lil' more WiNe...

[Teresa]

I think I should be honest and add a 7) Phoebe (from Friends). I'm still trying (failing) to fully sophisticate her.

[Sandra Davies]

Mary Mary quite contrary
Yes – Jo from Little Women
Nana Mouskouri (tho can’t sing a note)
Modigliani’s ‘Nude’1912 (I wish): Jean Fautrier’s 1943 ‘Sarah’ more like
Germaine Greer (without the brain, acerbity or wit)

[Teresa]

I checked out Germaine Greer. Now I want to peek at some of her books. And I disagree - you DO have the brain & wit, just not the acerbity. I looked up Nana Mouskouri, too, and listened to her song on YouTube - I Have A Dream(is it common knowledge that she only has one functional vocal cord?)...which explains the slight helium quality to her voice. I liked it though. She looks a bit like Sarah Palin or the young Marlo Thomas.

[Sandra Davies]

Apart from one about her father I'm somewhat ashamed to say I never read any of GG's books - she provokes polarised reactions but is always stimulating (and is possessed of an articulacy of scary proportion) nevetheless it was her scruffy wild hair and as nature intended face I was identifying with, and Nana M was what my childen dubbed me after seeing photos of me in my twenties.

[Michael Brown]

I want to be
James Salter / Richard Yates / Robert Sheckley / Raymond Carver / Paul Auster
married to
Barbara Pym / Muriel Spark / Anita Brookner / Penelope Fitzgerald / Elizabeth Taylor (the writer).
We write at our desks in our shared studio in the mornings
discuss literature (especially our own) in the early afternoon, and
entertain and attend get-togethers with all the other writers who will have us, three evenings each week,
and spend the rest of our time with normal people.

[Teresa]

Well, well....I have completely researched your alter egos and "wives" - as you knew I would...;-)
My inner "curious cat" had SO much fun.

[Sandra Davies]

I'm curious about the 'wives' - Barbara Pym struck me as on the prim & spinsterish side (ages since I read any), and Anita B is a bit spikey surely? I don't know Penelope Fitzgerald's work & will check her out, and none of the men were known to me at all (tho I have heard of Raymond Carver)