D.H.Lawrence, aka Bert Lawrence, aka Lorenzo Lawrence, aka DHL, aka David Herbert Lawrence
By now, I sure would have a lot of questions to ask him. We would definitely have a nice cup of tea in a garden, somewhere in England, Nothinghamshire or Cornwall, as he would have remembered it.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I think I would like to sit with him in Italy somewhere. He loved Italy.Originally Posted by Janine
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"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Rabelais, Cervantes, Diderot, Voltaire or Baudelaire I believe.
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Well, we would just get on the magic carpet and spend the evening in Italy. He loved his England too, but just not what it had become to him. His remarks in "Kangaroo" about England made me see it even clearer. It was sad reading it and how displaced he actually felt. You could feel his longing for the wild flowers and the hills and the fields. England was his first 'native' home, so tea there would be nice and then off to Italy we would fly to have dinner in a great Italian restaurant.
It would be a balmy evening and we could really talk about what he meant by all his stories we have been discussing. We might just be surprised by his comments.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Another title for this thread is "Who is your most favourite writer and why".
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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Actually no, for example, Gogol, I mean I would probably find the conversation as boring as him.
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J.R.R.Tolkien.
I adore people whose imagination creates miracles and masterpieces.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
I think Dostoevsky would be kind of a downer.
I'd like to be with Hemingway,off in some exotic land,hunting dangerous game.
Seems like a good time.
Dostoevsky most certainly did believe in God. Wikipedia:
There you have it.Dostoevsky's experiences in prison and the army resulted in major changes in his political and religious convictions. Firstly, his ordeal somehow caused him to become disillusioned with 'Western' ideas; he repudiated the contemporary Western European philosophical movements, and to instead pay greater tribute to traditional, rural-based, rustic Russian 'values'. But even more significantly, he had what his biographer Joseph Frank describes as a conversion experience in prison, which greatly strengthened his Christian, and specifically Orthodox, faith (Dostoevsky would later depict his conversion experience in the short story, The Peasant Marey (1876)).
No, but I would.I would love to meet anyone who said "America is essentially the greatest poem."
Diderot and Voltaire would be excellent people to bring back, no doubt.
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Has anyone mentioned Shakespeare? Now that would be interesting communing with Shakespeare. I would like to ask him many, many questions about Hamlet.
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.
Hi Dori, yes, wouldn't Whitman be great? At one time he lived in the next town over from me. I wish I had been alive at that time.
I would like to talk with Willa Cather and Streinbeck, since I read many of their novels. I think they would be great conversationalists.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It's too hard to choose between Voltaire, Vonnegut, Hemmingway, and Joyce.
If I chose Joyce, I'd smack him on the head and inform him that word play and puns for 600 pages is a major pain in the *** for the reader. After that I'd congradulate and thank him for Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses.
If Voltaire or Vonnegut, I'd ask how they setup their satires. I actually might wanna call Swift and Orwell back too... damn!
If Hemmingway, I'd ask how in the hell can you put so much into so few words.
Or just read Karamazov's...
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
Oh Yes, APEist's post has reminded me now that I would very much like to visit with Huxley (Orwell and Huxley always relate in my mind to each other). I have read "Brave New World" twice, and "Brave New World Revisited". Wow, I would have tons of questions for him on both novels; and since he was very close friends with D.H.Lawrence, we would have so much to discuss. Another friend of Lawrence and author would be Katherine Mansfield. Definitely, she would be invited to our tea. This way I could get a lot of inside information on my author.
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There's that way too. Whichever floats your boat.
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