[MEME] That five questions meme
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nhw for setting me up with some questions.
1) Which parts of Europe have you travelled to?
I have not been to Europe, at all.
2) Where in Europe would you most like to go, that you have not been to?
Ideally I'd like to see all of Europe. My top ten destinations, by country, would be the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, and Finland, with a heavy bias towards urban areas and sites of historical and cultural significance.
3) If you could host a dinner party for any 3 people (either all living today, or all real but dead), who would it be?
Right now I'm interested in writers and thinkers who've managed to pull off the miraculous task of succeeding despite the odds. I'll pick British philosopher John Gray, American author Michael Cunningham, and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. I'm certain that they'd have interesting things to say to each other, me the pleased spectator.
4) Five years ago, what did you think you would be doing now?
I didn't.
More precisely, I didn't think of myself as having a future. This isn't because I had a nihilistic conception of my self, mind. I just didn't consider the possibility that one day, after I finished university, I'd have to do something else, be someone else. I imagined possibilities, wild dreams having no connection to my reality, but I never thought I'd be doing anything at all.
Yes, I'm glad to have gotten past this. Well, somewhat, at least.
5) (The crude question) What five fictional characters would you shag?
This is actually a disturbing question, since it made me realize that in almost all the fictional stories I've read, the protagonists are profoundly and terribly flawed. If you have any sense of self-preservation at all, why would you want to sleep with characters created by Michael Cunningham, Sébastien Japrisot, Muriel Spark, or Angela Carter? You may, or may not, decide that this says interestingly revelatory things about my personal life. I prefer not to think about it. Thanks!
Ahem.
That said, I'll pick Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith from Bujold's Vorkoisgan novels, Giraut Leones in John Barnes' A Million Open Doors, Prior in Kushner's Angels in America, and James Bond in Ian Fleming's original novels. Each of these people are terribly flawed, each in their own ways, but they'd be interesting even if I didn't manage to survive them.
As always, if you want me to give you questions just ask in the comments.
nhw for setting me up with some questions.1) Which parts of Europe have you travelled to?
I have not been to Europe, at all.
2) Where in Europe would you most like to go, that you have not been to?
Ideally I'd like to see all of Europe. My top ten destinations, by country, would be the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, and Finland, with a heavy bias towards urban areas and sites of historical and cultural significance.
3) If you could host a dinner party for any 3 people (either all living today, or all real but dead), who would it be?
Right now I'm interested in writers and thinkers who've managed to pull off the miraculous task of succeeding despite the odds. I'll pick British philosopher John Gray, American author Michael Cunningham, and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. I'm certain that they'd have interesting things to say to each other, me the pleased spectator.
4) Five years ago, what did you think you would be doing now?
I didn't.
More precisely, I didn't think of myself as having a future. This isn't because I had a nihilistic conception of my self, mind. I just didn't consider the possibility that one day, after I finished university, I'd have to do something else, be someone else. I imagined possibilities, wild dreams having no connection to my reality, but I never thought I'd be doing anything at all.
Yes, I'm glad to have gotten past this. Well, somewhat, at least.
5) (The crude question) What five fictional characters would you shag?
This is actually a disturbing question, since it made me realize that in almost all the fictional stories I've read, the protagonists are profoundly and terribly flawed. If you have any sense of self-preservation at all, why would you want to sleep with characters created by Michael Cunningham, Sébastien Japrisot, Muriel Spark, or Angela Carter? You may, or may not, decide that this says interestingly revelatory things about my personal life. I prefer not to think about it. Thanks!
Ahem.
That said, I'll pick Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith from Bujold's Vorkoisgan novels, Giraut Leones in John Barnes' A Million Open Doors, Prior in Kushner's Angels in America, and James Bond in Ian Fleming's original novels. Each of these people are terribly flawed, each in their own ways, but they'd be interesting even if I didn't manage to survive them.
As always, if you want me to give you questions just ask in the comments.
