Sunday fun: what literary character do you have the most in common with? I'll start.

When one is young our potential in life seems boundless. The older we get the more constrained and limited our lives seem to become.

A younger version of me would have related with other characters.

But as someone who has recently turned 38, I have to be more honest about my actual life.

The literary character I am most like is Leo Colston from L.P. Hartley's "The Go-Between."

Like Leo I basically have had no career, no serious relationships, little to no social life. I shut myself off from the world.

Like Leo I am fortunate to be relieved of the pressure of having to work a job or have a career. My financial source is nothing as romantic as being able to sell old books my father bought. Instead, it is through real estate my father bought.

Like Leo I feel lost in the modern world. I feel like I am living in a foreign country even though I have always lived in the same country. The world of the internet and cell phones is not my world. I will always be an outsider in the world.

Like Leo my thoughts and intellectual life exist in the 'before' time. For L.P. Hartley the before time was before automobiles, phones, radios and world wars. For me the before time is before the internet, before cell phones, and before internet 2.0

Pretty much my intellectual life and interest is in the human soul in that of humans before the internet.

Like Leo I had a traumatic event in my life regarding love, that has left a permanent imprint in my psychological make up. To be fair Leo had his event the summer he was 13. I had mine the spring I was 23.

I will be blunt. I do not like to travel. And pretty much nobody can get me to do anything if I do not want to.

But if someone from my past were to reach out and ask for anything I would be there. Like Leo the only things and people that mean anything to me are from a foreign country I no longer get to physically live in.