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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2007-06-13 03:46 pm
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Literary Botticelli

So, some folks ([livejournal.com profile] coyotegestalt, [livejournal.com profile] redhilltown and [livejournal.com profile] kinetikatrue) have done rounds of literary boticelli, and I won the last one, so I'm hosting this round. I love word games, what can I say. In-depth directions for the game can be found here on kinetikatrue's page. It's layed out all pretty nicely, so I suggest you go read and come back. But basically, the question you ask must be specific enough that I can answer confidently with a particular author or character (as in, "no, I'm not Elizabeth Bennett"). If I don't get the reference, you get to ask a more general question that can be answered with a yes or no, such as the person's sex, age, nationality, etc.

So, my name begins with S.

ETA: I am a male, fictional character created after 1900 by someone British. I am not North American. My exploits take place in something closely resembling the real world. I am not any kind of Smith, Eustace Scrubbs, Jonathan Strange or Mr. Smee.

ETA2: One at a time please folks. Form an orderly queue.

OK, just to try the easy one first...

[identity profile] coyotegestalt.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you the play- and poem-writing son of a Stratford glover?

Re: OK, just to try the easy one first...

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not William Shakespeare

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you been turned into a famous CanCon song?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea. Ask me a question.

[identity profile] srichard.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
([livejournal.com profile] kinetikatrue linked me)

Did you write a novel about the last few months of life in Australia after nuclear annihilation?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Neville Shute

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Did news of your suicide cast a bit of a dark cloud over Mrs. Dalloway's party mood?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Septimus Warren Smith
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[personal profile] kinetikatrue 2007-06-13 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you a lame Quaker who accidentally became a children's author?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Anna Sewell

[identity profile] coyotegestalt.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you a scholar and lensgrinder ousted by Jewish clerics of Amsterdam due to your espoused pantheism?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Spinoza

Dude, I love this game. Favorite train pasttime.

[identity profile] ghastlymess.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you go and write a bunch of fairy tales in the late 19th century?

[identity profile] ghastlymess.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Or, rather, are you a hardworking and tireless fellow who was written about by Albert Camus?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Sisyphus

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Did your fiancée send you to fetch Chadwick back to the US?

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[identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Can we assume that you are not a poisonous character in the Harry Potter series?

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[identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you work for the Ministry of Truth?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Winston Smith

[identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose you used to be a hobbit?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, not Smeagol

[identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever demanded a pound of flesh?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
I am not Shylock
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[personal profile] gillo 2007-06-13 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you reject the advances of an honest farmer in favour of a cleric who didn't want you, only to fall for someone totally unsuitable and spoken for?

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[personal profile] gillo 2007-06-13 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you occasionally step in to act for an anthropomorphic representation who is in a manner of spekaing a close relative?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
You can't ask two consecutive questions

[identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a performer at the Kit Kat Klub?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not Sally Bowles who in any case would be a 'B' within the terms of the rules
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2007-06-14 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a corrupt Irish-born police detective in post-war LA, with a reputation for ruthlessness and brutality?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
OK, you got me there. Who am I supposed to be and ask your question.

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[identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Do you deserve your name?

[identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
ETA "almost" deserve your name?

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[identity profile] besideserato.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Are you female?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's the sort of question one only gets to ask after stumping me with a more specific attempt at guessing the character

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you a multi-lingual hunchback monk?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Salvatore

[identity profile] coyotegestalt.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you ride a donkey and accompany Maenads to Narnian revels?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Selenus

[identity profile] redhilltown.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you a scientist unable to further your studies in mathematical theory on your own utopian world because of its hierarchical structures?

[identity profile] redhilltown.livejournal.com 2007-06-14 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The utopian society's hierarchical social structures, I mean.

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[identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
um *cough* *cough* Still waiting...

[identity profile] identitee.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you the 76th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Lord Sepulchrave

[identity profile] coyotegestalt.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you a Trotskyesque pig?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not Snowball

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