Characters
- James Donaghue (Jake), a writer and translator in his early thirties
- Peter O'Finney (Finn), a distant cousin
- Magdalen Casement (Madge), a typist living on Earls Court Road
- Samuel Starfield (Sammy), a wealthy bookmaker
- Mrs Tinckham, a chain-smoking, cat-loving shopkeeper near Charlotte Street
- Dave Gellman, a Jewish anti-Metaphysical philosopher, living on Goldhawk Road
- Lefty Todd, leader of the New Independent Socialist Party
- Anna Quentin, a singer
- Sadie Quentin, a film star
- Hugo Belfounder, a fireworks manufacturer and film magnate
- Ward Matron; Sister Piddingham; Stitch, a hospital porter
- Mister Mars, a 14-year-old Alsatian, the star of many popular animal movies
- Jean-Pierre Breteuil, a French writer whose novels include:
- Le Rossignol de Bois ("The Wooden Nightingale")
- Les Pierres de l'Amour ("Stones of Love")
- Nous les Vainqueurs ("We who Vanquished")
- Homer K. Pringsheim (H.K.), an American film magnate
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“Children pay little attention to their parent’s teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)