Literary Botticelli

[chickenfeet]

So, some folks (coyotegestalt, redhilltown and 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.

Comments

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

[coyotegestalt.livejournal.com]

Are you the play- and poem-writing son of a Stratford glover?

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Have you been turned into a famous CanCon song?

[srichard.livejournal.com]

(kinetikatrue linked me)

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

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Did news of your suicide cast a bit of a dark cloud over Mrs. Dalloway's party mood?

[kinetikatrue]

Were you a lame Quaker who accidentally became a children's author?

[coyotegestalt.livejournal.com]

Were you a scholar and lensgrinder ousted by Jewish clerics of Amsterdam due to your espoused pantheism?

Dude, I love this game. Favorite train pasttime.

[ghastlymess.livejournal.com]

Did you go and write a bunch of fairy tales in the late 19th century?

[ghastlymess.livejournal.com]

Or, rather, are you a hardworking and tireless fellow who was written about by Albert Camus?

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Did your fiancée send you to fetch Chadwick back to the US?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Can we assume that you are not a poisonous character in the Harry Potter series?

[forthright.livejournal.com]

Do you work for the Ministry of Truth?

[thidwick.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you used to be a hobbit?

[forthright.livejournal.com]

Have you ever demanded a pound of flesh?

[gillo]

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?

[gillo]

Do you occasionally step in to act for an anthropomorphic representation who is in a manner of spekaing a close relative?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Are you a performer at the Kit Kat Klub?

[ironed_orchid]

Are you a corrupt Irish-born police detective in post-war LA, with a reputation for ruthlessness and brutality?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Do you deserve your name?

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Are you female?

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Are you a multi-lingual hunchback monk?

[coyotegestalt.livejournal.com]

Do you ride a donkey and accompany Maenads to Narnian revels?

[redhilltown.livejournal.com]

Are you a scientist unable to further your studies in mathematical theory on your own utopian world because of its hierarchical structures?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

um *cough* *cough* Still waiting...

[identitee.livejournal.com]

Are you the 76th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast?

[coyotegestalt.livejournal.com]

Are you a Trotskyesque pig?