Margo Roth Spiegelman

character · in 15 videos (2007–2010)

Mentions by year: 2007: 3 · 2008: 7 · 2009: 4 · 2010: 1

Threads

Where's Margo: Nerdfighters photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman around the world (2009) — stage, result, 2009–2009
Hank asks Nerdfighters to photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman wherever they see her (2009) — ask, reported back, 2009–2009

What the videos say

2007

2007-07-20 · July 19: A Day in the Life of a Writer (Who Has No Friends) — In the prologue the narrator reasons that everyone gets a miracle - of all the unlikely things, at least one will probably happen to each of us - and his miracle was Margo. (00:02:01)
2007-09-12 · September 12: Paper Towns, Part 1 — In the reading, the narrator and Margo Roth Spiegelman grow up next door from age two in Jefferson Park, an Orlando subdivision on a former Navy base. (00:00:00)
2007-09-12 · September 12: Paper Towns, Part 1 — In the park, Quentin and Margo find a dead man in a gray suit slumped against a live oak, blood coming from his mouth. (00:02:37)
2007-09-14 · September 14th: Paper Towns, Part 2 — That night Margo appears at Quentin's window after investigating: the dead man was Robert Morris, a 36-year-old lawyer who killed himself with a gun during a divorce. (00:01:04)
2007-09-14 · September 14th: Paper Towns, Part 2 — When the divorce seems no reason, since many divorce without killing themselves, Margo suggests that maybe all the strings inside him broke. (00:01:34)
2007-09-14 · September 14th: Paper Towns, Part 2 — In sophomore year the narrator takes a poetry elective because Margo, now high priestess of Winter Park High School, takes it; Howl's words still describe her at his window. (00:02:42)
2007-09-14 · September 14th: Paper Towns, Part 2 — The chapter ends with the narrator thinking that Margo loved mysteries so much she became one. (00:03:45)

2008

2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — John says a main reason for two covers is that the novel's girl character is radically misapprehended by everyone around her; the covers capture two of those misapprehensions. (00:00:43)
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John shows the first two finished copies of Paper Towns, which has two different covers (happy Margo and sad Margo) with the same book inside. (00:00:00)
2008-10-15 · Paper Towns Reading — In the reading, the narrator says everyone gets one unlikely miracle, and his was growing up next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. (00:00:56)
2008-10-15 · Paper Towns Reading — At nine, Quentin and Margo find a dead man in the park; Margo steps closer and asks what happened while Quentin wants to go home, then they bike home. (00:03:52)
2008-10-15 · Paper Towns Reading — That night Margo reports her investigation at his window: the dead man, Mr. Joyner, was getting a divorce and killed himself; maybe all the strings inside him broke. (00:06:23)
2008-10-15 · Paper Towns Reading — The prologue ends with the narrator thinking Margo loved mysteries so much that she became one; part one is called The Strings. (00:08:59)
2008-10-31 · Show 'n Tell Thursday — John shows a page from a fictional National Enquirer in which Oprah is pwned, with a headline 'Margo flips out over Tell All Book'. (00:01:54)
2008-11-06 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John says the problem with finding Margo, for Q and the other characters, is not the mystery: they don't see Margo, only a funhouse-mirror reflection of themselves. (00:00:58)
2008-11-06 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John says Spiegelman is a German word meaning 'mirror maker', the man in a German village who made the mirrors. (00:01:38)

2009

2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John says Paper Towns is about Margo Roth Spiegelman, her next-door neighbour Q, the state of Florida and Walt Whitman. (00:00:00)
2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — Margo is the book's mirror maker: people looking at her see a funhouse-mirror reflection of themselves, not what is true of her, hence the two different, equally inaccurate covers. (00:00:46)
2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John says Spiegelman is a German word meaning mirror maker, the man in old German villages who made the mirrors. (00:00:46)
2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — Q's misimagining of Margo resembles Pudge's of Alaska; John argues that imagining someone as more than a person does them and ourselves a profound disservice. (00:01:22)
2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — On colours: the book has much Moby-Dick in it (white imagery, Black Santas, Margo's middle name meaning red); like Melville, John wanted to subvert white as a symbol of purity and put Margo outside the good/evil dichotomy. (00:01:51)
2009-05-14 · GREEN SCREEN!!!! — Hank shows off the green screen with a rapid montage of shouted backgrounds, from Superman and Wolverine to Margo Roth Spiegelman, animals, Neil Gaiman, Jean-Luc Picard and Hundertwasser. (00:00:45)
2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — Hank jokes that Margo Roth Spiegelman escaped John's head, and says he asked Nerdfighters to photograph her wherever they saw her, and they complied. (00:00:00)
2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — In the song's chorus, Hank sings that Margo, the 'manic pixie dream girl', is more complex than she seems. (00:00:34)
2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — The song retells Paper Towns: Margo disappears, the searchers follow her tracks, and in searching for her you find yourself instead. (00:00:34)
2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — The song says to learn what happens you must buy the book, and hopes the paperback yields a Margo one can understand and love complexly. (00:02:15)