The Path to Rome · Character
Pedant
A caricature of an overly scholarly or pedantic figure.
minor
First appearance: the path to rome
Pedant's tie to Mr. Hard Lector is one of the pressures that moves The Path to Rome—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
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- Friendship
- Other
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- Diverse Encountered Figures
- Protagonist
- Narrator and Direct Interlocutors
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Breaking point
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- Mr. Hard Lector
friendship · positive
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