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Questions from Thalia
May. 8th, 2005 08:38 pm1. What book that you have read has most moved you--what scene in said book, if possible? Details?
Man, I've been moved by a lot of books. I'm going to go with Wicked, because I identify with Elphaba a lot, and it's really depressing. I think the confrontations with the Wizard mean the most.
2. I know you've, mm, if I haven't got it wrong, I know you're quite alienated from your religion. Does that ever get difficult and upsetting, and details?
Only when I start thinking about it. It's not that upsetting on an everyday personal level because my family's not very religious. It gets me the most worked up when it comes to politics and when I start reading my mom's old college textbooks. I don't feel like I have too much of a gaping hole where I got rid of Catholicism, because I do have my beliefs, they're just heretical.
3. Describe your ideal year. Events, etc.
January in Australia and New Zealand. February is spent in and around the Caribbean, Florida, wherever it's warm, spending most of the time learning about pirates, as sunbathing is not much my thing and Google is only so much fun. Then over the next month or two tour America, working in a circle from Florida to New Orleans to California to Seattle and across the top of the country, back down through Pennsylvania to about Virginia, then up the East Coast and be in Quebec in May. June: England and Ireland, July: France, August-October: rest of Europe (including the girls' trip to Iceland). Then go to Egypt, visit Daniel in Israel, anywhere else I've forgotten, and end up back in the hot tub on New Year's Eve. Go to lots of plays and museums and churches and monuments, do a lot of shopping, ride on lots of trains, do a lot of reading, writing, and taking photographs, and thoroughly devour as much history of wherever I am as humanly possible. Probably travel with just Ella as more people equals more problems. It would be nice for the year to be relatively eventless in terms of social and familial turmoil, and completely eventless in terms of romance. In terms of political events, Dick Cheney is replaced with someone almost decent due to health problems, Bush gets impeached and indicted for something or other, the Democratic Party finds and reattaches its backbone, and John Kerry goes back to being cool. Bill O'Reilly dies of apoplexy; Michael Moore and Anne Coulter fade into obscurity.
4. Describe your favorite bird, if possible, and its plumage, or, if it is fictional, three details of it and its story.
Ravens. They're black. Edgar Allan Poe made them even cooler than they already were.
Second choice: the owl from Labyrinth, because it turns into David Bowie.
5. Write the beginning of the story closest to the top of your head. You can break it off whenever you feel like it.
The story closest to the top of my head I wrote the beginning of about a week or two ago, and posted so only a couple of PPCers could see it. I'm continuing it but I can't post any publicly yet.
Man, I've been moved by a lot of books. I'm going to go with Wicked, because I identify with Elphaba a lot, and it's really depressing. I think the confrontations with the Wizard mean the most.
2. I know you've, mm, if I haven't got it wrong, I know you're quite alienated from your religion. Does that ever get difficult and upsetting, and details?
Only when I start thinking about it. It's not that upsetting on an everyday personal level because my family's not very religious. It gets me the most worked up when it comes to politics and when I start reading my mom's old college textbooks. I don't feel like I have too much of a gaping hole where I got rid of Catholicism, because I do have my beliefs, they're just heretical.
3. Describe your ideal year. Events, etc.
January in Australia and New Zealand. February is spent in and around the Caribbean, Florida, wherever it's warm, spending most of the time learning about pirates, as sunbathing is not much my thing and Google is only so much fun. Then over the next month or two tour America, working in a circle from Florida to New Orleans to California to Seattle and across the top of the country, back down through Pennsylvania to about Virginia, then up the East Coast and be in Quebec in May. June: England and Ireland, July: France, August-October: rest of Europe (including the girls' trip to Iceland). Then go to Egypt, visit Daniel in Israel, anywhere else I've forgotten, and end up back in the hot tub on New Year's Eve. Go to lots of plays and museums and churches and monuments, do a lot of shopping, ride on lots of trains, do a lot of reading, writing, and taking photographs, and thoroughly devour as much history of wherever I am as humanly possible. Probably travel with just Ella as more people equals more problems. It would be nice for the year to be relatively eventless in terms of social and familial turmoil, and completely eventless in terms of romance. In terms of political events, Dick Cheney is replaced with someone almost decent due to health problems, Bush gets impeached and indicted for something or other, the Democratic Party finds and reattaches its backbone, and John Kerry goes back to being cool. Bill O'Reilly dies of apoplexy; Michael Moore and Anne Coulter fade into obscurity.
4. Describe your favorite bird, if possible, and its plumage, or, if it is fictional, three details of it and its story.
Ravens. They're black. Edgar Allan Poe made them even cooler than they already were.
Second choice: the owl from Labyrinth, because it turns into David Bowie.
5. Write the beginning of the story closest to the top of your head. You can break it off whenever you feel like it.
The story closest to the top of my head I wrote the beginning of about a week or two ago, and posted so only a couple of PPCers could see it. I'm continuing it but I can't post any publicly yet.