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:
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)