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| Pippi Longstocking |
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| Franz Kafka |
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A to Z Challenge it's E day.
E is for eccentric characters. They are almost always more interesting than the bland, perfect heroes and heroines. Who do you remember most from Peter Pan? For me, it's Captain Hook. He's murderous yet cowardly, and terrified of the croc who is constantly after him. Consider Pippi Longstocking, a highly unusual little girl with stick-out red braids. She lives all alone, has the "strength of ten policemen", hangs out with a monkey and her main possession is a suitcase full of gold coins!
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| Sherlock Holmes |
Or take Sherlock Holmes, a brash, even rude genius, who can't quite figure out a love relationship, is a violin virtuoso and is prone to fits of despair.
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| Disney's Captain Hook |
Kafka's extreme performance artist in his short story "The Hunger Artist" is so devoted to fasting that he lives in a cage for days, weak and crouching. Perfecting his art would mean fasting to death. Now that's an odd and macabre kind of eccentric.
Who is your favorite literary eccentric? The creepiest one? The most charismatic or mysterious?
