Book stuff
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"Is all fiction. Fiction, fiction, fiction. There will be no ever-existing people or places allowed. OK?"
Who, from a book, would you most like to meet?
Brother William from The Name of the Rose
Why do you want to meet them?
I have a strong empathy with fish out of (intellectual) water. Especially if they are ahead of their time.
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Would you like to meet them in their bookverse or in your world?
Mine. I think it would fascinate him.
What would you talk to them about?
Philosophy.
Would you do anything? Feed them food? Visit a fairground? Go shopping for fish? What would you do?
Wander the city, soak up its sights, eat in restaurants, drink in pubs.
Who, from a book, would you *least* like to meet?
Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.
Why do you not want to meet them?
She would drive me up the wall, across the ceiling and down the other side!
Would you run away and hide, or kick them in the shins, or do something else entirely?
There's the rub. A difficult character to escape from without being intolerably rude.
What book universe would you most like to visit for a day?
Beowulf
For a week?
The Iliad
A year?
Persuasion
Is there a book-universe you would trade for here forever?
Persuason, if I could be Captain Wentworth.
Why would you like to visit these book-universes?
Unanswered questions. And to have fun.
Where do you most want to *not* be? And why?
In Nick Jenkins' shoes as assistant to Widmerpool in The Soldiers Art. I make a crap dogsbody, especially to a shit.
If you could be a person from a book for a day, a week, a year, forever, who would you want to be for each?
A day: Beowulf
A week: George Sherston in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
A year: Brother William from The Name of the Rose
Forever: Wentworth in Persuasion.
Would you like to be in your world or bookworld?
Bookworld. No point being a fish out of water.
Why do you want to be these book-people?
Experiences I would like to have.
bopeepsheep"Is all fiction. Fiction, fiction, fiction. There will be no ever-existing people or places allowed. OK?"
Who, from a book, would you most like to meet?
Brother William from The Name of the Rose
Why do you want to meet them?
I have a strong empathy with fish out of (intellectual) water. Especially if they are ahead of their time.
.
Would you like to meet them in their bookverse or in your world?
Mine. I think it would fascinate him.
What would you talk to them about?
Philosophy.
Would you do anything? Feed them food? Visit a fairground? Go shopping for fish? What would you do?
Wander the city, soak up its sights, eat in restaurants, drink in pubs.
Who, from a book, would you *least* like to meet?
Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.
Why do you not want to meet them?
She would drive me up the wall, across the ceiling and down the other side!
Would you run away and hide, or kick them in the shins, or do something else entirely?
There's the rub. A difficult character to escape from without being intolerably rude.
What book universe would you most like to visit for a day?
Beowulf
For a week?
The Iliad
A year?
Persuasion
Is there a book-universe you would trade for here forever?
Persuason, if I could be Captain Wentworth.
Why would you like to visit these book-universes?
Unanswered questions. And to have fun.
Where do you most want to *not* be? And why?
In Nick Jenkins' shoes as assistant to Widmerpool in The Soldiers Art. I make a crap dogsbody, especially to a shit.
If you could be a person from a book for a day, a week, a year, forever, who would you want to be for each?
A day: Beowulf
A week: George Sherston in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
A year: Brother William from The Name of the Rose
Forever: Wentworth in Persuasion.
Would you like to be in your world or bookworld?
Bookworld. No point being a fish out of water.
Why do you want to be these book-people?
Experiences I would like to have.
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Date: 2003-08-06 12:28 am (UTC)Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.
::snorts::
I'm so with you on that one. Definitely one of the most annoying and aggravating characters in literature. No redeeming qualities, really. I just saw a production of P&P a few weeks ago and boy, does she set my teeth on edge...