Oh, Ursula. I'm glad I have some company. I felt so entirely moronic when I read the questions because I did recognize most of them, but ..... after decades ....could not place them. Growing older has its drawbacks. Out of literally thousands of books read, many several times over, magazines, on-line articles and texts, how does the mind keep track of the correlations? There's almost too much information in the world today. Julie Krueger Waiting for that miraculous brain-chip-implant that simulates photographic memory. ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Fictional characters Date: 1/3/2007 7:37:16 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _Ursula@xxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Hello GEO, and welcome. (Erudition is always welcome.) I recognized few of these, even where I'd read the books (some forty and more years ago, alas). Ursula clueless in North Bay geotca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello all. I've been listening in for a while and resisted posting > until reading that it was Penelope who waited 20 years for Ulysses and > died at his approach. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html