You see before you a door into the imagination.

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I've recently been re-reading the Thursday Next books by Jasper fforde. If you haven't read them, I recommend them because, despite being based on a very old literary conceit, they're actually great fun, funny and well-written. They're based on the old idea of a fictional character being able to enter the 'real' world or a real person entering a fictional one, rather like The Purple Rose of Cairo, Last Action Hero or The Neverending Story.
In the first book, The Eyre Affair, a machine is invented which allows real people to enter worlds of fiction, resulting in varoius characters from Jane Eyre being murdered or kidnapped and held to ransom - as these events take place, the text of the book (and all copies of it) change for better or worse.

So that gives me an idea. As it's Friday and so a slow work day, today's question is; which work of fiction would you choose to jump into if you had the chance, and how would your presence improve it?
Here's a few of mine.

Wuthering Heights
"By Hells Teeth!", bellowed Heathcliffe. "If any man stood between me and my desires, I should tear out their heart and devour it before their eyes!" He seized up a chair in his fury and hurled it at the wall, denting the wainscotting. "I am the master of this house and all within it shall do my..."
There was a knock at the door. With a diabolic oath and a twisted leer, Heathcliffe strode over and hurled it open to reveal David standing outside.
"Damn your eyes, sir!" roared the master of the house. "What business have you upon my land? Speak quickly before it goes ill for you!"
"Are you Heathcliffe?" was the only reply.
"That I am, sir, whatever business it is of yours!"
"Well cop for this, then", replied David, and kicked him firmly in the plums. Heathcliffe collapsed with a soft whimper.
David looked at the recumbent literary fruitcake. "You had that coming", he commented. "I always reckoned you were all mouth and no trousers."
Looking away, his eye happened upon Cathy, sitting silently on the seat by the windown. "Come on, Cathy", said David. "Let's take you out and show you a good time." He looked her up and down and took in her strict crinolines and corsetry. "But first", he added, opening his bag and taking out a pair of hotpants, "why don't you slip into something a little more comfortable?"

Twilight.
"Edward! Oh, my Edward!" My voice was cracked with worry as I ran through the glass-walled rooms of the Cullen's beautiful house. Within me, my heart beat faster at the sight of spatters of red on the cream-coloured furnishings. What could had happened. If some tragedy had befalled my beloved it would be as if all my being, my purpose had been stripped from me.
I took the stairs three at a time, past the momentoes of eternity which the Cullens decorated their home. Each picture of Edward, each sign of him was a splinter of fear in my heart as I passed.
I reached the top of the stairs, and turned to my love's room. It was in there he had sworn to protect me, no matter what. That he would always watch over me, care for me. Seated on his bed was an unknown man, bending over Edwards recumbent body. As I watched, the man raised a mallet and finished knocking home a sharpened wooden stake. He turned, and looked at me.
"Lucky I got here when I did", he said. "Turns out this place was a nest of vampires. Still," he added, standing and brushing thick, gritty ash from his shirt. "I think I got them all. You should be safe, now."
Safe? The word burned itself into my mind. Yes, I was safe. I felt myself falling utterly, irretrievably in love.

1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clock was striking thirteen. David looked irritably up from his newspaper and glared at it. "Bloody thing", he muttered. "I knew I should have kept the receipt."

Your turn.

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[(Anonymous)]

1: In the beginning David created the heaven and the earth.
2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of David moved upon the face of the waters.
3: And David said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And David saw the light, that it was good: and David divided the light from the darkness.
5: And David called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6: And David said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7: And David made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8: And David called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9: And David said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10: And David called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and David saw that it was good.
11: And David said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12: And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and David saw that it was good.
13: And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14: And David said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16: And David made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17: And David set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and David saw that it was good.
19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20: And David said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21: And David created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and David saw that it was good.
22: And David blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23: And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24: And David said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25: And David made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and David saw that it was good.
26: And David said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27: So David created man in his own image, in the image of David created he him; male and female created he them.
28: And David blessed them, and David said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29: And David said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31: And David saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand Rimmer did much the same thing in an episode of Red Dwarf.

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