The poem also contains a character that I refer to, in a rather ugly, dehumanizing way, as "a wandering tramp".
One of the two epigraphs to my novel Boxer, Beetle, which contains a character based on a young Robert Moses, is a quotation from Jacobs: "We are all accustomed to believe that maps and reality are necessarily related, or that if they are not, we can make them so by altering reality".
Gibbs's collection "A Season in the Sun and Other Pleasures" (1946), dedicated to O'Hara and almost entirely pre-published in The New Yorker, depicts the lazy, boozy, sun-soaked Long Island beach life the two men enjoyed; one story, "Love, Love, Love," contains a character, the autobiographical George Crane's friend Mark Anderson, whom I take to be, in part, O'Hara.
But even here, it's as if the melancholic undertow to "Twelfth Night" has very much informed events that contain a character, the theater-mad undergraduate Charles William Frenchh), who is playing Feste, the clown, in an (offstage) production of the Bard that sends this tightly connected community into a tailspin.
It also springs from "A Raisin in the Sun," contains a character from the Hansberry classic, and starts in 1959 before moving to the present day.
A fourth 1928 novel, Ladies Almanack by the American writer Djuna Barnes, not only contains a character based on Radclyffe Hall but includes passages that may be a response to The Well.
Philitas' influence has been found or suspected in a wide range of ancient writing; Longus' 2nd century AD novel Daphnis and Chloe contains a character likely named after him.
The reason for that confusion is because the Chinese term for psoriasis contains a character that is also used for dermatophytosis.
Each key contained a principal character, with letters in alphabetical order (across and then down) first, followed by four special characters: an underscore (representing space), a period, a character-deletion function, and an undo function.
This drama was full of echoes of Goldsmith and Sheridan, but it contained a Yankee character (the predecessor of many such in years to follow) who brought something native to the stage.
