Bring them back from the grave

[Asa Adams]

I never thought about Homer. Good one, Orual!

[bazarov]

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.

You can't be serious...I'm so funny guy

[Asa Adams]

Baz. What would you do if Orwell came to you, and asked your thoughts of Animal Farm?

You would probably admit to translation difficulties!

[Janine]

Know what I would do --- I'd moo

[Asa Adams]

Nice. I would crack a whip and make some plans on further land development. Can't forget the bowler either.

[Janine]

Someone at my library tonight told me the film version of "Animal Farm" is great - it is really serious and well done. I have to see it now. I read the book yrs ago and loved it. Orwell is one of my favorites, along with Huxley. What visionaries they were. How unique Animal House was when it first came out.

Did anyone bring Walt Whitman back yet?

[Janine]

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!

Asa, somehow I missed this post before and it really cracked me up finding it tonight. Well, you pretty much described yourself and your mode of dress - quite a variety - you are especially daring with that blood red shirt. How did I ever come to ask you to begin with? Guess I will just have to read back more posts. Blue is nice - wear it to the Lawrence discussions, will you, since Lawrence had lively blue eyes! About the ties - how inovative to wear them on your head Could you revise your photos or add to them in the "Photoalbum" thread to show one with this particular mode of dress? I have to see it to believe it! I must ask - blazers with the patches on the elbows, like real authors wear? You are so spiffy!

[CountingSheep]

I'd like to meet Dickinson, Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Poe... oh damn I could go on forever. Lets not forget the man responsible for my love of reading...Theodor Seuss Geisel.

[bazarov]

Baz. What would you do if Orwell came to you, and asked your thoughts of Animal Farm?

You would probably admit to translation difficulties!

He would be shocked how could someone get his ideas sooooooooo good

[chaplin]

Out of all the Russian writers, I would choose Chekhov. Turgenev would be too daintily European, Dostoevsky would brood the whole time and talk about nothing but 19th century newspapers, Tolstoy, post-A Confession, too strict, and Tolstoy, pre-A Confession, too haughty.

Chekhov was probably the most enjoyable to be around, and the only one who wouldn't, voluntarily or involuntarily, make you feel like a peasant at the feet of the master. He could crack an irreverent joke and delve into the hopeless hope of the future or the eventual triumph of life. All the others would find it difficult to make that transition. He possessed within himself both extremes of Russia: the maudlin, philosophizing and the devil may care galavanting.

[downing]

I would ask him did he ever killed anybody because I don't understand how could he describe Raskolnikov so good, why didn't he finished those two novels what he started to write, what does he think about mushrooms in Anna Karenina, does he believe in happiness, does he believe in destiny or everything happens by an accident...

the mushroom part is hilarious Good ideas, baz!

[Gibran]

I'd choose nobody but Oscar Wilde (before he was put in Reading jail).
Only one fairy tale of his will absolutely fullfill the whole tea time with "odour of roses".

[Lioness_Heart]

Jane Austen (I know she's already come back once). We'd sit very demurely in my sitting room and drink tea. Not that I like tea, but I'm sure I could make the sacrifice...

I'd like to find out which of her heroines she is most like... and what it was like for her trying to become an author. And also why her stories always have happy endings. I love her books but sometimes they can seem a little 2D after a while; it would be nice to find out about the woman behind them.

[Erichtho]

I would like to meet Franz Kafka. First we would go to cinema and then we'd spend the rest of the evening in a café in the old town of Praha.

[byquist]

I'd go for a chat with Emily Dickinson.