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02-20-2008, 08:40 PM
Etienne

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Originally Posted by jasons123451

Edgar Alan Poe in an opium den. Would be very interesting to see were the inspiration came from.

And why not Poe, Baudelaire and De Quincey together? Well, my choice goes for this trio, in the end!
02-20-2008, 09:20 PM
JBI

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Originally Posted by Homyrrh

I'd resurrect the Apostle Paul. Saw it all and lived to tell about it ;)

Did he?
02-20-2008, 10:25 PM
superunknown

Oscar Wilde and Joseph Heller would make for very entertaining company.

I'd love to have a chat with Orwell too.

I'd say Hemingway but he didn't seem like much of a people person.
02-20-2008, 10:55 PM
Homyrrh

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Originally Posted by JBI

Did he?

Reference the majority of the New Testament. Regardless of your faither or belief in the validity of the text, the fact is that he at least wrote it, right? Right!
02-20-2008, 10:56 PM
Homyrrh

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Originally Posted by superunknown

Oscar Wilde and Joseph Heller would make for very entertaining company.

I'd love to have a chat with Orwell too.

I'd say Hemingway but he didn't seem like much of a people person.

And, in reagrds to Hemingway, you're also most hopefully not a female human or male bovine.
02-22-2008, 11:06 PM
Janine

Ernest Shackleton, the arctic explorer....what amazing tales he could tell. I would love to hear of his survival story first hand.

Ernest Shackleton counts because he wrote several books, one being "SOUTH The Endurance Expedition". I read it and loved every word. Fascinating and inspiring!
02-23-2008, 12:07 AM
hellsapoppin

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Originally Posted by Etienne

... why not Poe, Baudelaire and De Quincey together? Well, my choice goes for this trio, in the end!

Bingo! GREAT choice!!
02-23-2008, 12:34 AM
PabloQ

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Originally Posted by Janine

I also was thinking 'could the person we bring back be other than an author?' I was thinking of interesting people like Gandi or the Roosevelts, Lincoln, JFK.

Theodore Roosevelt was an historian and a novelist so he counts. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage so he's game too.

Now to answer the original challenge.

I'd like to board a steamboat in St. Louis and travel down the Mississippi with Mark Twain. Side by side, we'd lean against the railing and he can point out the inspirational points of interest along the way. Eventually, he'd tire of that, light his pipe, and set into telling his view of the world today. Laughter ensues.

One other note to Jamesian from way back in the thread -- it be an honor and a privilege to escort Mr. James back to whence he arose, if for no other reason than to slap him one for all my time he wasted with "The Wings of the Dove".
02-23-2008, 01:45 AM
JBI

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Originally Posted by Homyrrh

Reference the majority of the New Testament. Regardless of your faither or belief in the validity of the text, the fact is that he at least wrote it, right? Right!

The fact that the events in the bible actually happened are up for debate, but not here. I was just pointing out that there is a lack of evidence, and evidence against the notion that Paul actually penned any all the works attributed to him in the bible. The closest I can come to believing he wrote that stuff is that he passed the legacy down by word-of-mouth.
02-23-2008, 01:50 AM
HowlingMan

Kurt Vonnegut or Philip K. Dick, both in a pub.

I'd say being in a pub with either of those fellas would be the greatest night ever.
03-01-2008, 04:58 PM
Janine

The Pre-Raphalite poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The man was so deep and so illustrative in his writing and illustrations.

I would also like to bring back his sister, Christina Rossetti, who also painted and wrote beautiful poetry.
03-01-2008, 08:42 PM
tractatus

How many i can count?
Put us in same room please;
Baudelaire, Poe for sure. W.Blake, Cortazar, Calvino, Lermontov, Woolf...
Only I m not sure about Byron, i cant take the risk of him try to molesting all my guests, that s scandal.
03-07-2008, 12:51 AM
El Viejo

Holy smoke! Just one?

Definitely Twain, or Bierce. Maybe Poe. Or Dow Mossman. Might have a chance with him since I wouldn't have to resurrect him.

How about if some of you let me just sit and listen during your visits?
03-07-2008, 01:29 AM
SirRaustusBear

I can't believe no one has said this yet but I gotta go with a night bar hopping with Jack Kerouac. When he got drunk he would supposedly ramble on about his theories of writing and I would love to have that conversation.

Second is probably Camus, though I would probably spend the whole time just staring in awe and be unable to speak to him.

Of live authors, gotta be going hiking with Gary Snyder.
03-07-2008, 02:34 AM
aeroport

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Originally Posted by SirRaustusBear

Second is probably Camus, though I would probably spend the whole time just staring in awe and be unable to speak to him.

I'd be up for that - I'll sit in and translate.

For me, I could go for a chat with Wallace Stevens at the moment...
03-07-2008, 03:24 PM
ballb

I`d bring back Christopher Marlowe. We`d spend the afternoon talking literature and revolution in a pub in Deptford. Then I`d ask him to settle the bill. :)

Apart from Marlowe I would like to organize a dinner party for Virginia Woolf, Anthony Burgess, Oscar Wilde, Sir Francis Bacon, Montaigne, Michael Foot and Chaucer. Shouldn`t be too many lapses in the conversation. I wouldn`t even ask them to bring a bottle.
03-07-2008, 04:03 PM
PeterL

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Originally Posted by ballb

I`d bring back Christopher Marlowe. We`d spend the afternoon talking literature and revolution in a pub in Deptford. Then I`d ask him to settle the bill. :)

Were you the one who did that a few hundred years ago?

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