When characters breathe their last

The final words a character speaks are often their most compelling. What are your favourites?

I have been thoroughly enjoying this site's discussion of great opening lines. Thinking about first lines made me think about great closing lines - and then about the great "last words" of fictional characters.

Which got me thinking about tragedy, and reminded me why I left the execrable Stratford production of King Lear at the interval. I don't usually walk out on plays, and I have nothing against

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Published on May 14, 2007 03:28
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