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:
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)