Tulse Luper

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Tulse Luper is a fictional 20th century character, created by Peter Greenaway. Luper is mentioned in Peter Greenaway's early films A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist and The Falls, and appears as the major character in The Tulse Luper Suitcases project where he is to be considered as Character Number Two. In this project it is not impossible that he is a fiction created in guilt, fear and love by his schoolboy friend Martino Knockavelli who feels responsible for an accident that may have caused his death at the fall of a garden wall when both boys were writing their names on the red bricks - "For all the world to see" - their first innocent bid for world recognition.

In an interview given with salon.com, Peter Greenaway stated "Tulse Luper is a sort of alter ego created many years ago -- Tulse could be said to rhyme with the pulse in your wrist, and Luper is a corruption of the Latin for wolf. So how about "danger lurking at the very door of your life?"

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• Tulse Luper
• A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
• The Tulse Luper Journey - an online multiplayer game based on The Tulse Luper Suitcases project.