Monday, May 22, 2006

And the people you'll see

There are times when I identify strongly with sobbing and temperamental Dynne. (I hope your copy of the book had that illustration of the blue-smog creature.) For better or worse, do you see yourself as any of "Tollbooth's" characters?
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7 comments:

Ben said...

Well, I have the giant's gelatinous body, I often talk like the Whether Man, like the Lethargians I'm lazy and a stickler for rules, I'm a contrarian like the Humbug, like King Azaz's cabinet I enjoy bad puns, and like Alec Bings I see through things and my feet don't touch the ground.

But most of all, I'm like Milo. I take everything around me for granted, and it takes some extraordinary and unbelievable events for me to wake up to the details of everyday life.

2:47 PM, May 22, 2006
Erin said...

The Terrible Trivium really resonated with me. If you do enough stupid, unimportant things, you'll never get around to doing the important things. So true.

8:33 AM, May 24, 2006
cl said...

I liked how the Terrible Trivium, despite his creepy blank face, had such a nice way of giving out tasks. I've been suckered into tedious work by a polite request before!

10:57 AM, May 24, 2006
kc said...

Duke of Definition=Erin
Minister of Meaning=George
Earl of Essence=Christy
Count of Connotation=Kim
Undersecretary of Understanding=Ben

1:08 PM, May 24, 2006
kc said...

I am not quite finished yet. I am still smitten with the Doldrums, though. I love this description: "Each one looked very much like the other (except for the color, of course) and some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves."

" ... some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves." That is the kind of sentence that would really have engaged my kid mind, but I didn't read any cool books like this when I was a kid.

1:12 PM, May 24, 2006
george said...

The Giant/Midget/Fat Man/Thin Man. In this world sometimes you have to make people believe you're something you're not just to seem not so ordinary.

7:01 PM, May 24, 2006
cl said...

I second Kim's nomination.

10:15 AM, May 26, 2006

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