"My boy, you see me astonished."
-- Charles Coburn
Hollywood actor Coburn, playing imaginary rococo-tongued con artist "Colonel" Harrington who is paterfamilias to the Eve mentioned in the title of Preston Sturgis's classic screwball comedy "The Lady Eve," delivers the above line to fellow Tinseltown thespian Henry Fonda playing the fictional fall guy Charles Poncefort ("Hopsie") Pike in the selfsame film. In the lines below Coburn's Colonel voices an abecedarial array of reactions, positive and negative, to a whole slew of famous fictional characters from classic literature and film.
Bloody
I am
Oh, yes:
Reading
Ah, but
Eglentyne sees me...
(The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)
Frandaboo (?) sees me...
Gilgamesh sees me...
(Gilgamesh by Anonymous)
Hannibal sees me...
(The Silence of the Lambs)
Ishmael sees me...
(Moby Dick by Herman Melville)
Jabberwock sees me...
(Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll)
Katisha sees me...
(The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan)
Lemini sees me...
(Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden)
Michaeleen sees me...
(The Quiet Man from John Ford)
Nicholas sees me...
(Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens)
Oliver sees me...
(Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)
Passepartout sees me...
(Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne)
Quatermass sees me...
Robin Hood sees me...
Sherlock Holmes sees me...
(The Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Turandot sees me...
Undershaft sees me...
(Major Barbara by G. B Shaw)
Voldemort sees me...
(The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling)
Wigglemuch sees me...
(The Wiggelnuch by Herbert Crowley)
Xavier sees me...
Yellowrock sees me...
(Skinwalker by Faith Hunter)
Zampano sees me...
(La Strada from Federico Fellini)