Ian Townsend
07-02-2012, 08:24 AM
This is very probably going to be a very lonely chat echoing around a forum that's lonelier than that Scottish Badger one. :D
My all-time favourite Dickens character is Mr Quilp from the Old Curiosity Shop.
Unpleasant to a fault, he lights up a foul-smelling pipe to clear the room when his wife has visitors and pinches the back of her arms to make her squeal. I think he gets his come-uppance at some point but I can't remember if he's the character who spontaneously combusts. (The first time the notion of spontaneous combustion is mentioned in a book I think)
If I knew how to post a picture would. :rolleyes:
Close second is another evil one. Madame Defarge... she quietly knits the names of traitors who need beheading into the scarves she makes.
My all-time favourite Dickens character is Mr Quilp from the Old Curiosity Shop.
Unpleasant to a fault, he lights up a foul-smelling pipe to clear the room when his wife has visitors and pinches the back of her arms to make her squeal. I think he gets his come-uppance at some point but I can't remember if he's the character who spontaneously combusts. (The first time the notion of spontaneous combustion is mentioned in a book I think)
If I knew how to post a picture would. :rolleyes:
Close second is another evil one. Madame Defarge... she quietly knits the names of traitors who need beheading into the scarves she makes.