* Absalom is the name of a character in Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece during the Thriller Bark arc.

* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

* The character of Absalom appears in Michael Cook's The Head Guts and Sound Bone Dance

* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.

* Absalom Greer, is the name of a character in Jan Karon ’ s Mitford series.

Little is known of his appearance and character except that he was " beautiful as Absalom, and spoke good Latin ".

John Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in celebrated lines in the poem Absalom and Achitophel ( to which Buckingham replied in Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ... by a Person of Honour, 1682 ):

He is also a character in Absalom, Absalom !.

Thomas Sutpen is the focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!

* Absalom ( comics ), fictional character

* Absalom ( One Piece ), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece

* Absalom ( 2000 AD ), a 2000 AD character and eponymous series spun-off from Caballistics Inc.

* Absalom, fictional character in Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The character of Amnon in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is thought to be based on him.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

No single morphological character appears to be diagnostic of the order Asparagales.

The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

Alfred appears as a character in the twelfth-or thirteenth-century poem The Owl and the Nightingale, where his wisdom and skill with proverbs is praised.

In the novel Ambrosius is a separate character from Arthur, or Artorius, who appears much later as a foe of Cerdic.

Anaxagoras appears as a character in The Ionia Sanction, by Gary Corby

In Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels, the character Anthony Dresser appears to be based on Drexler.

A non-Japanese video game featuring a dream-eating tapir also exists., and in the Manga of Masashi Kishimoto Naruto, the late character Danzo Shimura is capable of summoning a giant Baku to aid him in battle ( unlike many modern representations, the Baku that appears in Naruto is very close to the original japanesse description of a Baku ).

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).

Another Summer of Night character, Dale's younger brother, Lawrence Stewart, appears as a minor character in Simmons ' thriller Darwin's Blade, while the adult Cordie Cooke appears in Fires of Eden.

The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

* In the final chapter of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower, the character Susannah Dean travels to an alternate 1980s New York City where Gary Hart is President.

In Susannah Kells ' novel Fallen Angels, a phaeton is the transportation of choice for the main character, Campion, who later crashes the carriage in a perfect example of its dangerous and fickle reputation.

" It is possible that Jane Austen drew on the character of the mother of her neighbour, a beautiful Mrs. Craven, who had actually treated her daughters quite cruelly, locking them up, beating and starving them, till they ran away from home or married beneath their class to escape There is an ironic contrast between the beautiful but determinedly chaste Susannah of the Old Testament and Lady Susan.

It is also possible that Miller meant the character to be a hybrid of Mary Walcott and Susannah Sheldon.

HAL 9000 is a character in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction Space Odyssey saga.

The last chapter of the novel would be finished in Atlanta while Clarke and Macauley discussed racial issues ; these conversations may have influenced the development of the last chapter, particularly Clarke's choice of making the character of Jan Rodricks — the last surviving member of the human species at the end of the novel — an African American.

The situation forces the character to come to terms with his homophobia although this aspect of Clarke's character was substantially toned down, since the atmosphere of a sitcom would not be suitable to explore such a conflict appropriately ( the producers did not intend to recreate another All in the Family Archie Bunker character ).

Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

The series also featured actor Nicholas Bell as the conniving Secretary to the Minister for the Olympics, a foil for Clarke's character.

" Their predictions were the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's character HAL 9000, who accurately embodied what AI researchers believed they could create by the year 2001.

A character with the same name and color appears again in Arthur Clarke's later novel Imperial Earth.

* In Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth, character Kumar presents this condition after his death by being hauled into space by the Magellan ship.

He had been commissioned by some of his English colleagues to ascertain the extent and character of the carboniferous formation in New South Wales ( Clarke's letter to Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February 1852 ).

Doctor Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai ( often abbreviated to Dr. Chandra ) is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series of novels.