Who has the best friendship in all of fiction?

Ishmael and Queequeg

>>8956583

Easily Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Can't even argue

>>8956583
Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder

>>8956583
Achilles and patrocolus

>>8956601
Friends with benefits are the best friends

>>8956583
Jesus and Judas

Samwise and Frodo

>>8956583
Enzian and Tchitcherine

Ada and Van

Narcissus and Goldmund

Thomas Bernhard and Paul Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein's Nephew

Mason and Dixon

Best in what sense? The greatest example of close friends? Or a friendship that added the most to the work it's featured in?

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>>8956587
These. First two posters in a thread have actually got it right for once.
Honorable mentions:
Belano and Lima
Simone and the unnamed narrator
Merteuil and Valmont

My dick and your mother.

>>8956795
>Simone and the unnamed narrator
I wouldn't call their relationship "friendship." They're more like partners in crime, in both the literal and colloquial senses.

Gus and Call

>>8956583
Holmes and Watson

gilgamesh and enkidu

>>8956795
I have no idea who any of these people are or what books they're from, stop being so French

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>>8956587
>>8956779
genuinely good answers (although whether Mason and Dixon will stand the test of time is to be seen, I think it will)

>>8956752
lol wtf it's a bit deeper than a friendship and it's not even that compelling (on purpose)

genuinely plebby answer

>>8956583
Candide and Professor Pangloss.

(Calvin and Hobbes)

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Oblomov and Zakhar

>>8957039
This. I can't think of any better fictional friends in any medium.

>>8957109
Upon reflection, I can't either.

>>8956850
this

plus avtandil and tariel in the knight in panther's skin

>>8957039
Great answer. Makes me feel sad

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>>8956811
Edgy

>>8956996
>People not acknowledging the Goku and Vegeta of Sumer

>>8957380
Don't feel sad, anon. I've been slowly picking up Calvin and Hobbes books again. I don't know what happened to the books I had when I was a kid. I think my parents must have donated them when I moved away. When I came back they were all gone. But man, I am having so much fun re-reading them now. It's still so brilliant and insightful, so much more so than I was able to grasp as a child and yet I can still enjoy it just the same.

Oh what I'd give for Bill Watterson to come out of retirement with Calvin and Hobbes again, but I understand why he won't and I'm glad they haven't been bastardized by Hollywood and consumer bull shit.

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>>8956587
+ david and jonathan

>>8956996
>Nods
Based,

Cassidy, Kerouac, and Ginsberg

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>>8956587
This

Their conversations are among the best things I've ever read

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>>8957441
>>>8957380.
>glad they haven't been bastardized by Hollywood and consumer bull shit.

But it has with bullshit like this

>>8957011
>he hasn't read Story of the Eye
>he hasn't read Dangerous Liaisons
"Genuinely plebby answer"

>>8956583
Sherlock and Moriarty

Dumbledore and Grindelwald

Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro

Gandalf and the Balrog

Socrates and all the Athenians he argues with

Diarmuid and the Boar

Perseus and Medusa

>One worthy rival is worth 100 friends.

>>8958761
Oh, I should have also added...

Sisyphus and the Rock

>>8956583
Ellie and Joel

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Le tree dog and spikeman

Bury nice and bury ebil

>>8956795
What books are those 3 friend sets from?

Great question OP

Definitely the whole gang from Belgariad.

>>8956601
I always accidentally conflate Patroclus with Iolaus.

Buttboys is buttboys I guess.

>>8956583
Dante and Virgil

>>8959453
I don't understand how people can think they were gay

>>8957659
Never authorized though, mate. Waterson fought admirably against all attempts to use his IP and in doing so turned down a large fortune in royalties.

>>8959128
The Savage Detectives
Story of the Eye
Dangerous Liaisons

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Bill & Ted

Claudius and Postumus

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Easily Sam and Frodo

>>8956583
ALL THE GREEK GAYS

huck finn and that negro

Harry and Ron and Hermione

>>8961381
>reading children's literature

>>8961389
They weren't being serious...

>>8961400
No, I was.

Finn & Jake

Humbert and Dolores.