Characters
- The Boy is literally only a head on a stick, despite which he is something of an idealist.
- Slither the snake, who tends to be more of a skeptic.
Other recurring characters include:
- Nancy, a tooth who fights injustice
- Florida Cracker, a right-wing cracker from Florida
- Frickles Mudcat, a catfish who is running for President of the United States and is only ever seen in one fixed pose
- God, who is depicted as a cloud with lightning bolts for arms with a bottle of beer and a cigarette.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)