Enduring Characters
Phrynne flew off to America in her bi-plane, and TBG and I had to accept the sad fact that we had watched, albeit unknowingly, the last episode of the last season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. We were bereft. We felt this way when Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night and then Studio 60 vanished after their short visits, too. We kept the characters around, whether the television was on, or not. We watched live sports and wondered what Dan might have to say on the subject, as if the fictional talking head might appear at any moment on our screen. Well drawn characters do this to us, and they always have. Just ask TBG about his burial plan; you can read the description he recites from memory in Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter:The Martian Series . In the actual event of his death, wiser minds will surely prevail. Still, I have no doubt that someone will mention the marble slab and the door, bolted only from the inside. Jo March's adventures in writi...