Daily writing prompt
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
Man, there is a list of people here. Anything from the invisible man to Captain America, Superman, The Count of Monte Cristo, or Tony Stark.
I mostly posted this to see what Bocopro would say. He’s one of the well-read readers and commenters here, and I’ll bet he has something good to say.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Well, now, lemme see . . . eschewing the adventurous, the audacious, the pretentious, the swashbuckling hero with excess testosterone and well-endowed groupies such as Bond, Kirk, Indiana Jones, et al. have, I b’lieve I’d go with some kinda Perry Mason identity.
Why? Pursuing truth, protecting innocents, using the law enforcement and legal systems as they’re designed and intended.
Closure. Satisfaction. Style. Intellectual ripostes instead of metallic thrust and parry. Prob’ly just as many babes, but without the bullets and constant danger, just cerebral gymnastics with facts, metaphors, analogies, and charismatic flamboyance.
Mind games, not war games. Air-conditioned office, muscle car, unlimited funds. And lotsa steak dinners.
‘Course invisibility allowing attendance at closed-door conferences with Churchill, Patton, Harry Truman considering Fatman and Little Boy, JFK on the Cuban missile episode, Clinton when Hillary found out about Monica, pillow talk between Mooch and her Halfrican, and what Trump actually thinks about Z-man.
Incidentally, is Don Don’s telegraphing his punch about hitting bridges and power plants a classic head fake? Would he really go thru with it knowing that the mullahs have built human body shield of kids and women to protect ‘em?
Or is he gonna throw some more multi-million-dollar weaponry at 5-figure speedboats and mobile launchers along the eastern shore of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman?
I’d like to eavesdrop on tonight’s target briefings on a coupla dem bird farms over there.
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