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talking about full blown literary characters (not your genre fiction trash, it would be easier to find a non-goon) Lester Ballard from Child of God is pretty much how I imagine a goon to be in that period of history. Maybe if he had a something awful forums account and it existed he wouldn't have done the things he did
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Like... gooniest fictional characters? But not from genre fiction just dead aristocratic fiction? Really confused by this whole thing.
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Ignatius Jacques Reilly
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Stavrogin and Underground Man are pretty spergy. One of my professors compared me to underground man for that's worth.
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Humbert Humbert
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Splurgerwitzl posted:Like... gooniest fictional characters? But not from genre fiction just dead aristocratic fiction? Really confused by this whole thing. If the book spans several volumes and isn't written by proust its trash and shouldn't be included with this thread
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Samwise Gamgee
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Hexel posted:Samwise Gamgee at least he gets the buxom girl from the bar at the end of it all
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The title character from Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" -Goes on Safari -Runs away from animals he's trying to shoot -Wife bangs safari guide -He finds the courage to divorce his wife and hunt dangerous game -Wife blows his head off
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Victor from Lizard Music.
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Crash_N_Burn posted:The title character from Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Quite a few of hemingway's characters are goony. That dude from the old man and the sea is a good example. Spends days fighting a fish, finally wins, then it gets eaten and he goes and mopes around rather than punching the sharks to death like a real alpha.
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Fungus the Bogeyman
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Bazarov. Also Kirillov more so than Stavrogin. Werther
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jabber the hutt
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Mr. Collins from Pride and Prejudice. His heartwarming marriage proposal: Collins posted:My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very greatly to my happiness; and thirdly—which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honour of calling patroness. […] But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years longer), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place—which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years. This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem. And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection. […] what a nice guy
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David Foster Wallace.
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samwell tarly is a beta bitchboy who'd suck on jon snow's nuts given permission
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Inspector Javert, who is so averse to any sort of personal growth that he kills himself when he realizes he's changed.
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 okay not a literary figure but he's basically the proto-goon in everything, including his writing
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Silas Marner
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Pugsley Addams Wednesday Addams oh wait you said literary not cinematic Don Quixote was a pretty dumb idiot, possibly gay Libelous Slander fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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The only answer is Pierre from War and Peace He is the gooniest gently caress besides Samwell Tarly
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Henry David thoreau
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Eazy-E from N.W.A. because he died of AIDS
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Professor Shark posted:The only answer is Pierre from War and Peace Pierre had some good meltdowns.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Agreed And some pretty hilarious gently caress ups, such as his marriage
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Otto von Ruthless posted:Silas Marner I would agree but he appears to be competent at raising a child so I'm not sure he qualifies.
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oscar wilde
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Raskolnikov and Yossarian
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Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Anyone say Boo Radley yet?
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everyone in romeo and juliet
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C3P0
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allen ginsberg for obvious reasons
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Except for not being overweight, it would most certainly be Marcel Proust.
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katniss everdeen
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Dante. Wrote self-insert bible fan-fiction where he got to hang out with his favorite author and watch a bunch of people he hated being tortured. He was also desperately in love with a woman he only met twice and included her in his fan fictions.
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