If you were..

[subterranean]

to meet any one writer (dead or alive), who would it be?

I'd definetly want to meet Orwell and Heller (the deads). And i think it'd be nice also to spare some time, having a cup of tea or coffee while chatting with Umberto Eco.

[Jester]

Orwell, steinbeck and of course tom robbins

[Stanislaw]

Stanislaw Lem, Isaac Asimov, And Hitler (just to give a good punch in the nose :devil emoticon: )


I actually met Steve Smith, that was really awesome.

[subterranean]

Liar..you would definetly hug that man Stan :D

[Stanislaw]

lol, sh*t Heil! nah, actually I wen't out with a neo-nazi fro a period of time, never realized she was one untill she invited me to the klan meating/convention thing. I was really shocked, she figured I would support her, because of my blond hair, blue eyes, and dutch grandfathers military hoice in WWII, I was really disgusted. Man... life is really weird.

[subterranean]

oh so the love story ended then eh ;)?

[Stanislaw]

Yeah, I am not really a hitler loving hate monger. ;)

[subterranean]

No wonder she picked you.

Sometimes i feel like laughing, I mean this Hitler was not blonde, didn't have blue eyes, not tall, and didnt have good body shape. Yet (almost) all Germans were hailing for him ...

[Jester]

i know if he didn't kill so many poeple and take over almost all of europe he would be the laughing stock of history

[Scheherazade]

Sub has actually HiJaCkEd her own thread! :D

[subterranean]

Am not...i was talking about Hitler, which is one of the writers that Stan wants to meet.

[EAP]

Tolkien.

Want to get his opinion on abortion, gay marriage and the virtues of disney. ;)

[Taliesin]

Of those who are alive, Pterry. We love his sense of humour.

Of those who are dead? Nah, then We would have kill Pterry so that he would count as dead and We would get another extra meeting. But we wouldn't do it because then he couldn't write any more books which would be a pity.

But of those who are dead at the moment?

Prof T sounds nice. (plus then We would know, if the balrogs had wings, who was Tom Bombadil et cetera)
Or, if We could speak russian, maybe Bulgakov.

*thinks a moment*

Ah, now We know the dead one. Astrid Lindgren.

[Scheherazade]

I would like to meet Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw although I cannot imagine what I could have say to people of their intelligence and wit.

[mono]

I would want to meet no one other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. A friend of mine, who thought about the same question, answered Ernest Hemingway - good idea!
Other writers: Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, . . .

[crisaor]

I'd like to meet Homer.

[Jester]

EAP - Tolkien

Virtues of disney eh? are there any virtues of disney?

[Jay]

Cris... reading 'I would like to meet Homer'... well, blaming all the Simpson threads... ahem :blush:. Got it a sec later though.
Well... if Homer Simpson wrote any book that would be... interesting... well, if you actually didn't mean you'd like to meet the yellow Homer... but I so doubt it... ack *shuts up*

[subterranean]

Hey there's one episode in The Simpsons in title of Homer's Odyssey, which of course is meant to be ironic.

I'd like to meet Moses and discover his experience in writing the Torah

[crisaor]

I meant the immortal greek bard, Jay. But it's OK, I love that Homer too.

[baddad]

Billy (william) Shakespeare--for his keen sense of discernment --- Jonathan Swift, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain (he was so damn witty), another vote for Unberto Eco, ......

Wouldn't it be fun to have a long lingering lunch over a few bottles of wine with this bunch and more of their ilk?

[Jester]

ive often thought that one possible afterlife is to meet in some pub in london (never actually been there but somehow that seems the place to go) with all these dead guys and get to brood over what they did, like the dead never really leave the world, they just become invisible to all but each other... there's a couple of people I'd sure like to question

[simon]

I don't think you can actually meet "Homer" since the work is a compelation of oral stories passed down over time. There is no one specific author, but someone named Homer may have been the first to record the story in script.

I want to meet this vietnamese woman who fought agaisnt the US during the vietnam war, has written only four books to be translated into english and was improsion for 9 months becuaes the governement thoguth she was handing out government secrets. She sounds like she has an interesting perspective on life.

[subterranean]

I don't think you can actually meet "Homer" since the work is a compelation of oral stories passed down over time. There is no one specific author, but someone named Homer may have been the first to record the story in script.

I want to meet this vietnamese woman who fought agaisnt the US during the vietnam war, has written only four books to be translated into english and was improsion for 9 months becuaes the governement thoguth she was handing out government secrets. She sounds like she has an interesting perspective on life.


Seconded the Homer thingy Simon. And perhaps you'd also like to meet Aung San Syuki (Hope I spelled her name correctly) from Myanmar.

[Aimee]

Out of writers I think I'd like to meet Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde and Emily Bronte.

Out of all the famous people to die ever in the world I would probably say...Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. Just cos I'd love to get insde their heads and see how they think. Actually I'd just love to see them, period.

[subterranean]

Kurt Cobain, Miss Monroe eh..?

Ehm, we're talking about authors here ;)

[trismegistus]

I would want to meet no one other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. Henry David Thoreau


Hear! Hear! I'll add Franklin to those two.

[crisaor]

I don't think you can actually meet "Homer" since the work is a compelation of oral stories passed down over time. There is no one specific author, but someone named Homer may have been the first to record the story in script.
I know, just as we can't meet almost anyone in this thread because they're dead. I just assumed he really existed with the identity we normally associate to him, in order to participate in the thread. I thought that was clear.

[Spite]

Sweet god...

H.P Lovecraft is at the top of my list(s)
Along with Poe and Dickens and of course Dante Alighieri

OH and Robert frost and vonnegut (I think he is dead)
Doyle, Bram Stoker, Jack London, Cervantes, Ludlum, Tom stoppard... yeah ill stop now.

[simon]

Okay Crisaor, in that case I want to meet him as well and Socrates too, and whoever transcribed the bible.

[Spite]

Gutenburg?
Or the Desiplces and Whores?