How do you handle confrontations?Quite honestly, I strive to avoid confrontation in all forms. I have always been more a negotiator than a fighter, and it seems to me such a waste to set oneself needlessly at odds with another person, when all it would take to rectify the situation is to know what they want, and supply it ( Read more... )

If you could change one moment in your past, what would it be?Hm. Well, it certainly would not be my arrival in the Underside - that gave me my chance to truly make something of myself, a chance I never had in the Upworld ( Read more... )

What is the most important decision you've made in your life and why?

Hmm. That is a difficult one. It could be the day I chose to abandon my Upworld life - and it was a choice, in the end, when I recovered enough to make it. Not a good choice - I would only have ended up like Lear or poor Iliaster - but a choice nevertheless. And I chose to ( Read more... )

What do you want on your tombstone?In all honesty, I don't suppose I shall get one. The last time I died, my body was... disposed of, and, so Old Bailey tells me, finished up in the hands of the Sewer Folk, before he bought it from them ( Read more... )

What makes you laugh?There are many things I find amusing. Naivete. Foolishness. The small ironies of life. But laugh ( Read more... )

What's your favourite guilty indulgence?

I do not find any guilt in indulging in pleasures. Whether that be the occasional alcoholic drink, a fine cigar when I can procure one, the pleasures of the flesh, or anything else.

Some would say pleasure should be a guilty thing. I disagree. I see no reason why I should not take what I want, when I ( Read more... )

How did you lose your virginity?

I don't believe I want to answer that question in any detail. In point of fact, the details have become mercifully blurred with the passing of time. I was very young, and I have lived for a very long time by usual standards. Not as long as some here, perhaps, but I am human, regardless of what some may say. My ( Read more... )

What's more important -- self-preservation or forgiveness?Self-preservation, of course. It's what I live my life by. And on the one occasion when the pursuit of my trade required me to sacrifice my life, I was very careful to take precautions to ensure that my death was not permanent ( Read more... )

Do I believe in love at first sight ( Read more... )

Is there ever a reason to get blind drunk ( Read more... )