For Esmé -- With Love and Squalor

[kotori]

She'd be about 70 now. Every wonder what happens to fictional characters after the end of the story? Or in those places in a book that are "off-stage" so to speak?

Before going down to the strand where he sees Gerty McDowell in the Nausicaä episode in Ulysses, Bloom visits Paddy Dingham's widow. What did they talk about?

(Inspired--by word association only--by DCL's Simon & Garfunkle thread.)

 

[IrishWolfhound]

Truely great fictional characters live on in my mind. In fact, I have fantasy conversations with them.

 

[kotori]

I don't do that, but I would like to try my hand at that "fan fiction" stuff someday, filling in the gaps. I haven't seen any based on classics. How about a short story about Dolly Haze's wedding day? Did she get married in Alaska, or did she and her husband more there after they were hitched? I think about this crap.

 

[SweetCherry]

I think you've got too much time on your hands, Brother Sheep.

 

[kotori]

I've got too much something on my hands. I've tried washing it off, even used castilles brown, but no good. Next comes the 40 grit sandpaper.

 

[SweetCherry]

Hey, if you wouldn't have your hands there to begin with, they wouldn't GET that on 'em.