NPPF -- Why care about Kinbote?

[MalignD at aol.com]

I must say that I find the caption of this string depressing, the idea that 
one needs characters that are likeable, that one can identify with, that one 
can "care" about.

Kinbote is pretty richly on the page:   witty, appalling, narcissisitic, 
delusional, grandiose, a ping-pong enthusiast -- not enough for you?

Not to pick unnecessarily on TP, but to offer an example to hand:   did you 
find yourselves "caring" about either of those two-dimensional effigies, Mason 
or Dixon?


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