Quasimodo (The Hunchback), Lenny (Of Mice And Men), and Bianca (from Sturgeon's "Bianca's Hands") because they had an undying need to be loved, a void which could never be filled. You could probably add Mary Shelley's monster and old Seaclops from RB's "The Foghorn" to that list. Theodore Sturgeon has several such characters in stories and novels, with "Saucer Of Lonliness" and MORE THAN HUMAN being his most famous and perhaps saddest.
On the flip side of that is Ray Bradbury's Clarisse from F-451 who runs amok stuffing herself full of loveliness, running into the rain, not away from it--head back, mouth open, tongue out... tasting the rain. Beautiful child. Don't we all want to be like that?
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"Years from now we want to go into the pub and tell about the Terrible Conflagration up at the Place, do we not?"
Dandelion, And whether that book shall be the favorite of your life, or whether that station will be held by another, its pages must show. (But then there’s “Dandelion Wine” and then there’s everything else.)
Braling II, Piglet. Yes, Piglet! How could I have not thought of him? Piglet for sure.
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Originally posted by Braling II: Sometimes Eyore, sometimes Owl, sometimes Pooh, sometimes Piglet...
Sometimes.. I feel like going to 100 acre woods and giving Eyore a house of some kind. Although I'm sure some kind of malicious butterfly would land on it thusly destroying it.
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