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Livetweeting die hard during the marathon

Wed, 12:14: Argyle! #diehard
Wed, 12:23: Huey Lewis terrorist! #diehard
Wed, 12:26: Bad German grammar #diehard
Wed, 12:44: Now I have a machine gun hohoho! #diehard
Wed, 12:49: Twinkies #diehard
Wed, 12:58: Who’s Irving this car, Stevie wonder? #diehard
Wed, 13:02: Jerky reporter appears #diehard
Wed, 13:05: Ykymf #diehard
Wed, 13:17: Send in the car #diehard
Wed, 13:25: Hans, bubble I’m your white knight! #diehard
Wed, 13:35: Johnson and Johnson arrive #diehard
Wed, 13:36: Hans American accent #diehard
Wed, 13:45: Lapd shoots a civilian #diehard more realistic than previously thought
Wed, 14:04: Argyle rams ambulance and clocks theo #diehard
Wed, 14:06: Happy trails Hans #diehard
Wed, 14:34: Diehard2 starts

Thoughts on diehard 2 –

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the thing about my brain that I dislike the most

The thing about my brain that I dislike the most is that I live my life with my brain as an unreliable narrator. Never boring, though.

All five types, but mostly the Madman and the Liar, sadly enough.

  • The Pícaro: a narrator who is characterized by exaggeration and bragging, the first example probably being the soldier in Plautus’s comedy Miles Gloriosus. Examples in modern literature are Moll Flanders, Simplicius Simplicissimus or Felix Krull.
  • The Madman: A narrator who has severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or paranoia. Examples include Poe’s Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado, Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal, or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
  • The Clown: A narrator who does not take narrations seriously and consciously plays with conventions, truth and the reader’s expectations. Examples of the type include Tristram Shandy.
  • The Naíf: A narrator whose perception is immature or limited through his or her point of view. Examples include Huckleberry Finn or Holden Caulfield
  • The Liar: A mature narrator of sound cognition who deliberately misrepresents himself, often to obscure his unseemly or discreditable past conduct. John Dowell in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier exemplifies this kind of narrator, as does Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.