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i think my challenge is to either find characters i care about or to learn something i don't know. the former is hard to do with first-world problems (not to say it doesn't happen, but it's hard); the latter i get more from how-to books than from fiction these days. e.g, i'm bent on exhausting the literature about cob house building.

right now i want to vegetate and read all day and i'm thinking i should read some fiction but instead i keep thinking about building directly on bedrock without a foundation. have i gone nuts? yes. yes i have.

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okay here's question for all: who are your favorite characters in fiction?