Happy Birthday PrinceMyshkin!

[kiz_paws]

To one very dear and talented friend, I hope that your birthday is a wonderful day! Happy Birthday, Jer!

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~K♥zzo

[Amundsen]

!!!!Happy birthday!!!!

[SleepyWitch]

what? the old geezer is having a birthday again?
Happy Birthday!

[Scheherazade]

Happy Birthday!

An interview with Prince:

How did you come about this site and what makes you keep coming back?
I think it was some member who knew me from another site. And I keep coming back because there are a number of poets whose work I deeply admire. Also, I appreciate the usually respectful comments I get on my own poems.

Are you happy with the way things are here?
Other than a problem I currently have when I access the site via Mozilla, yes - very much so.

What makes you happy?
Friendship, love, kindness, a new opening line to what I sense might become a good poem.

What is mankind's biggest achievement, and its greatest downfall?
I can't think of a greatest achievement at the moment but the downfall is sectarianism & xenophobia.

If you had a long day of hard work ahead of you what music would you be playing on your mp3, while working?
Well, I don't have mp3 but if I did, almost anything by Mozart, and maybe one of the Kronos Quartet albums or songs composed and performed by Mikos Theodorakis.

If you could take one book, music album and one video with you to a desert island, what would they be?
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr; "Pieces of Africa," by the Kronos Quartet; "Topsy-Turvy," directed by Mike Legh.

Do you feel comfortable in your walk with God?
Not in the least! If He or She did exist I would confront him about the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, Darfur, Ruanda...

Which actor should play you in a movie based on your life?
Kevin Kline?

Given the option, what animal would you choose to be?
A Yorkie or a panther

What were your favorite things to do the past? What about now?
In the past it was writing fiction and raising my kids. Now it's writing poetry and visiting my grandchildren.

What activities make you lose track of time?
Writing a new poem. Being with a lover.

What makes you feel great about yourself?
My curiousity, my love of children, my sense of humour.

What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
Writing, engaging pefect strangers in conversation...

What do people typically ask you for help in?
Their relationship issues.

If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
Civility, unfettered curiousity...

What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
Raising my kids, having had them.

What song is in your head at the moment?
"Marieke, Marieke," by Jacques Brel.

The last book you bought/borrowed from the library?
Mr. Golightly's Holiday, by Salley Vickers

Which book are you reading at the moment?
The Liars' Club, by Mary Karr.

The last book you finished reading?
The Turnabout, by George Pelecanos

Favorite food?/ Comfort food?
Mu shu pork; chicken pot pie.

What time of day do you most often find yourself on the LitNet?
First thing after breakfast.

What are you wearing at the moment?
Long black thermal underwear.

Favorite poem?
The Second Coming" by Yeats

First novel you remember reading on your own?
Probably Buff, a Collie.

Favorite TV shows?
In Treatment," "Entourage," "Bill Moyers Journal," "60 Minutes.

Which LitNet members would you like to meet in person if you could?CdnReader, Thefifthelement, firefangled, Ampoule, Makai

Favorite post on the Forum?
Personal Poetry

Last food did you have?
Home made vegetarian chili & rice, followed by a bite or two of a double chocolate muffin

Last words you said out loud?
Recital of "The Second Coming" that I left on the answering machine of two of my friends...

Last person you hugged/kissed?
Someone I dated once after she initiated contact with me via an internet site

What do you do (for a living) to be able to keep your LitNet addiction going? And are you happy with your chosen profession?
Retired but I loved teaching Creative Writing.

What question would you like to ask yourself?
Why can't you be more patient and less anxious?

What would you like to be if you could change your profession?
A psychologist.

What is your most outstanding feature?
My sense of humour

If you could change one thing about the way you look, what would that be?
My height!

43. Which book do you wish you had written?
The Brothers Karamazov

What should you be doing at the moment instead of answering these questions?
Taking the post dinner walk prescribed by my doctor to help improve my sleep.

The most embarrassing moment in your life?
Caught shoplifting.

List some of the things that annoy you immensely.
Braggarts. Know-it-alls.

Anything that you want to forget but you never can?
How deeply I hurt my first wife by falling in love with someone else.

Tell us about some amusing translation mistake you have heard or made yourself.
At an ice-cream store soon after I moved back to quebec I specified that I wanted my ice-cream in a "cornichon"!

Are you mostly happy with life or are you still in pursuit?
Very much still in pursuit.

Are you male or female?
Male.

What gives your life meaning?
My children and grand-children.

One final word of wisdom for LitNet users?
Love as deeply as you can and do not demand love in return.

What would you like to ask to the person to be interviewed after you?
Are you sure you want to do this?

[subterranean]

Happy Birthday.

Big Cheers!

[Virgil]

Happy Birthday Prince!! :bday_2: What a reat interview! :) This had me laughing:

What are you wearing at the moment?
Long black thermal underwear.:lol: I've never seen thermal underwear in black, but the thought of you in that by the computer had me laughing out loud! :lol:

Here are some presents for your birthday:

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http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/recent/yeatpoem.jpg

And since we both like Yeats so much, how about a chance to read one of my favorite Yeats poems:


The Circus Animals' Desertion
by William Butler Yeats
I

I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
Maybe at last, being but a broken man,
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.

II

What can I but enumerate old themes?
First that sea-rider Oisin led by the nose
Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams,
Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose,
Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems,
That might adorn old songs or courtly shows;
But what cared I that set him on to ride,
I, starved for the bosom of his faery bride?

And then a counter-truth filled out its play,
'The Countess Cathleen' was the name I gave it;
She, pity-crazed, had given her soul away,
But masterful Heaven had intetvened to save it.
I thought my dear must her own soul destroy,
So did fanaticism and hate enslave it,
And this brought forth a dream and soon enough
This dream itself had all my thought and love.

And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread
Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;
Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.

III

Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

[eyemaker]

happy Birthday Prince!!:D

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[Delta40]

Heppy b'day wee wain.

[Janine]

So sorry I am late. Happy Birthday Prince!

[kiz_paws]

That was a great interview, Jer. :nod:

[a_little_wisp]

Sorry I'm late!! :D I sent you a message earlier though!

I hope your birthday was wonderful, Prince, and perfectly sweet!!

And eyemaker, the picture of that cake just made my arteries clog. :D

[bazarov]

Happy Birthday, PrinceMyshkin! :) Damn, I always imagined you as a much much younger. I guess that should be a complimet :lol:

[Silas Thorne]

May you have the best of birthdays up till now! :) Have a great, wonderful day filled with familiar faces and well wishing youngsters.

[manolia]

Happy birthday :)

[motherhubbard]

Happy Birthday!!!

[Pendragon]

What could I write to a poet like yourself,
That would be worthy of the reading
Wishing you joy and love and wealth and health
These are things which you will be needing
Birthdays come but once a year
But friendship is made for an eternity
I am proud to hold you as a friend so dear
Here in our somewhat elite fraternity
I hope your day is filled with joy and laughter
Family and friends all gathered
No regrets at sunset, though there is a morning after
Finding peace in your world, and a little better
Hope this finds you happy and well
And if you don’t know it by now, buddy, I think you are swell!

Pendragon

[formality hater]

Happy Birthday!
May this year bring only the best for you!

[PrinceMyshkin]

What could I write to a poet like yourself,
That would be worthy of the reading
Wishing you joy and love and wealth and health
These are things which you will be needing
Birthdays come but once a year
But friendship is made for an eternity
I am proud to hold you as a friend so dear
Here in our somewhat elite fraternity
I hope your day is filled with joy and laughter
Family and friends all gathered
No regrets at sunset, though there is a morning after
Finding peace in your world, and a little better
Hope this finds you happy and well
And if you don’t know it by now, buddy, I think you are swell!

Pendragon

Holy cow, it rhymes - with my own heart, that is. Many thanks. I had not been checking this thread nor was I receiving notices of new posts to it.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Course in answering this question

[CENTER]Which LitNet members would you like to meet in person if you could?CdnReader, Thefifthelement, firefangled, Ampoule, Makai

I assumed you meant fully dressed! Otherwise I would have said a certain person who might soon be reading this and if she has not totally lost the facility, will be blushing!

[Niamh]

Happy Birthday Princemyshkin!!!

[PrinceMyshkin]

For some infuriating reason, I was not receiving notification of all these wonderful good wishes. So, belatedly, thank you very, very much

Formality Hater
Sleepywitch
KizPaws
Amundsen
Scheherezade
MotherHubbard
Manolia
Silas Thorne
Bazarov
Subterranean
Virgil
Niamh
eyemaker
Delta40
Janine
A_Little_Wisp

I feel very appreciated!

Jer