Bring them back from the grave

[whatsername]

JRR Tolkien
C.S Lewis
Jane Austen

[Asa Adams]

very nice, whatsername. C.S. Lewis would be very cool!

[Virgil]

OK, here's another for me. David Herbert Lawrence. I would like to be on a midland english farm discussing literature as we pile hay or milk cows or some farm activity. We would talk about love and religion and life. After the farm work we would take a hike an explore the countryside looking for some of the natural flowers.

[Asa Adams]

I knew it Virg. Great times! What would D.H.L be serving for lunch after tossing bails?

[Virgil]

I knew it Virg. Great times! What would D.H.L be serving for lunch after tossing bails?

I don't know what he liked to eat. I will have to ask Janine. She's read a number of his biographies.

[Dante Wodehouse]

Jonathon Swift, Mark Twain, and P.G. Wodehouse simultaneously. We would discuss the world as it has changed and mock every step it has taken while sitting in an uncrowded starbucks. Maybe Oscar Wilde too....

[Janine]

I knew it Virg. Great times! What would D.H.L be serving for lunch after tossing bails?

Ok, I would say Lawrence, too. I know so much about him by now, he would be a jolly good chap to meet. He loved playing scherades, so I would like to spend an evening with he and his guests playing the game and seeing him ham it up; they say he did so and was quite hilarious. Later there would be time for some philosophical talk and his theories on life and living. Maybe he would give a recitation of one of his poems. That would be splendid!
Ok, he liked to eat a variety of food. Probably for scherades he would order in or make some type of sweet dish (English of course) sconces or some type pastry and biscuits, and of course plenty of English tea. He also would serve coffee - he liked it very much.
Generally he ate all types of food and he cooked and baked, as well. I know what he liked to eat - it was in the travel books - I got a sense of it right away. He liked milk and ate lots of eggs when he could (felt they would help his lung problems), he ate a variety of meat and cheese and liked coffee, and of course the English like their tea, with milk. He pretty much liked most foods, I think. He even made homemade bread when he lived in New Mexico. I have a picture of him doing so. I should scan it for this thread. He loved to cook and bake.
I also will scan a nice photo of him in his early days. He was quite handsome at say age 21.
Virgil, did you know L knew all about botany and all the names of the plants. He had studied botany in school. He adored it. No wonder his stories are colored with vivid descriptions of plants and flowers. He would love come back in the spring.

[Virgil]

Virgil, did you know L knew all about botany and all the names of the plants. He had studied botany in school. He adored it. No wonder his stories are colored with vivid descriptions of plants and flowers. He would loved have the spring.

Yes I did. That's why I said I would like to walk about the countryside with him. And yes he loved sherades and was very good at it. He was very good at mimicing people, imitating their characteristics and speech. I think that served him very well as an author since writing characters is an act of mimicing.

[Janine]

Yes I did. That's why I said I would like to walk about the countryside with him. And yes he loved sherades and was very good at it. He was very good at mimicing people, imitating their characteristics and speech. I think that served him very well as an author since writing characters is an act of mimicing.

Virgil, I figured you knew that about the botany. I was just checking. L was really something wasn't he? I think all his books have flowers and plants in them. I love that part of his persona, having kept a garden myself. I also like the idea of you and he tossing around a few bales of hay. I would love to walk the paths L walked in his beloved countryside and see the wheat fields and the streams and the profussion of color in the flowers. I recall in Lady Chatterly's Lover the scene where Connie goes to see the daffodils blooming behind the keeper's house. How lovely that scene was to me. You could smell the woods and the scent of the flowers the way L described them.

I was thinking this same exact thing - "He was very good at mimicing people, imitating their characteristics and speech. I think that served him very well as an author since writing characters is an act of mimicing." Yes, he was quite a mimic and could get the others in the room in a roar of laughter. I can just imagine. You very elequotely put this into words. His manorisms and his electric personality drew many a friend to him. He was like a magnet attracting people with his lively blue eyes and sensitive lively personality.

[Asa Adams]

H. D. Thoreau. Sitting upon the shores of Waldon. We would eat mixed veggies grown from the garden. He would teach of the simplicities in life, that do so easily blow past my very eyes. We slow down and enter a peace as the sun hits the waves and angers the tree line with shredded bits of light and shadow.

[Hippolite]

Probably Doestoevsky. I want to know if he really believed in God, because I have serious doubts. He's too gloomy and pessimistic, yet practically every page oozes biblical allegory. Man, I love that stuff. He's currently one of my top two favorite authors, Proust being the other. Proust, however, I have no desire to meet. First of all he's already gone over every intimate facet of his thought in his novel so there's not much more to talk about. Secondly he'd probably spend the whole time discussing trivial matters in minute detail, say, the color of my shirt or something.

Shoot... I can't believe I forgot Borges. Now that would be an interesting guy to talk to. So erudite and strange, and such a copious imagination. I bet he could spin up stories on the spot that would leave you just barely thinking he had revealed the essence of eternity and the meaning of life, yet in reality leaving you even more befuddled than ever.

[Asa Adams]

What about Mr. Taine, Where you get your name?

Good choice. I love Doestoevsky, Watch out for old Bazarov, hes nuts about him....He'll corner you and talk for hours about the colour of the shirts Doestoevsky used to wear!

Just kidding Baz, Ol' Buddy!

[Janine]

H. D. Thoreau. Sitting upon the shores of Waldon. We would eat mixed veggies grown from the garden. He would teach of the simplicities in life, that do so easily blow past my very eyes. We slow down and enter a peace as the sun hits the waves and angers the tree line with shredded bits of light and shadow.

Asa, that is just beautiful....all of what you wrote but especially "the simplicities in life, that do so easily blow past my very eyes". So poetic. Makes me want to go to the shores of Walden and just sit and absorb it all forever.

Bye the way, what color shirts do you wear?

[Asa Adams]

Asa, that is just beautiful....all of what you wrote but especially "the simplicities in life, that do so easily blow past my very eyes". So poetic. Makes me want to go to the shores of Walden and just sit and absorb it all forever.

Bye the way, what color shirts do you wear?

Thanks I fancy myself alittle wannabe poet
Funny....Actually wearing my Blue sleeve shirt with the tie Firmly tied around my head! Party time!

I have a blood red shirt, Blue, White, Green, Black......and many others! Im a shirt and tie, blazer kinda chap! Except for after hours when I let loose and tighten the ties around my head!

[Orual]

My two favorite authors, Dostoyevsky and C.S. Lewis, have already been mentioned. I think I would enjoy a conversation with Lewis, but I'm not so sure about Dostoyevsky. I think he would find me rather boring and shallow and might request returning to the dead early.

My guest would be the author of The Odyssey, just because I would want to see if a single person comes back. Or maybe the author of Beowulf.