[EDIT: and by "Lucien", I mean the bespectacled librarian of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, not the SCA persona of the same name. Answer as many or as few of these as you'd like
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What 4 books (if you only got four) would you bring with you to a desert island? this is a terrible question. Hm. I'm going to assume that blank notebooks are in endless supply on this desert island, so I'm not including one of those. :) An enormous dictionary. A fat thesaurus. Then poss. Bird by Bird & a Jeanette Winterson. (for now).
What would be the title of your (as yet fictional) autobiography? Viscosity.
Quote a memorable passage (a few lines) of a book you're reading these days. "We do not accept [the] premise, that detailed reporting and artful writing are incompatible, which is flawed and, in many respects, elitist. We believe that art and literature not only document change but can also inspire and facilitate it." From the introduction to Creative Nonfiction:33 - Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives.
If you could own any book, written by anyone at any time, even if it hasn't been written yet or was never written, what would it be? My sister's automythography.
What was your favorite book when you were 10?
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My desert island book list has long included a collected Shakespeare, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Phantom Tollbooth. Obviously, passing up a fourth book would be sheer folly, but not many things stand up to re-reading in my world. Maybe Ulysses? I could become a famous scholar of it on my return! Or maybe Homer, as I could at least memorize it to keep from expiring of boredom?
I joke that my t-shirt should say "your mileage may vary," but I am too young to answer any autobiography questions :)
I am at work without my books, so no quotes.
For sheer impact on the world, how about "The Ten Commandments: The Three Thousandth Anniversary Edition?" :)
What 4 books (if you only got four) would you bring with you to a desert island? Presuming that Euell Gibons and David Macintosh are ruled out... Would I be allowed to count A la recherche du temps perdu as one book? If not, then just ...chez Swann Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros ...and you know, I really might like to find out How to Build a Wooden Boat
What would be the title of your (as yet fictional) autobiography? torn between Slowly I Learned, Step by Step and Vaster than Empires, and More Slow
Quote a memorable passage (a few lines) of a book you're reading these days. "By threatening the liberty of the French people to choose their government for themselves, the monarchies gave them a popular, deeply emotional cause such as the territorial and dynastic wars could never have generated. With the old French Army of the Bourbon monarchy disintegrating, and French finances even more chaotically in peril than they had ever been under the ancien régime, the Revolution nevertheless
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What would be the title of your (as yet fictional) autobiography? Viscosity.
Quote a memorable passage (a few lines) of a book you're reading these days. "We do not accept [the] premise, that detailed reporting and artful writing are incompatible, which is flawed and, in many respects, elitist. We believe that art and literature not only document change but can also inspire and facilitate it." From the introduction to Creative Nonfiction:33 - Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives.
If you could own any book, written by anyone at any time, even if it hasn't been written yet or was never written, what would it be? My sister's automythography.
What was your favorite book when you were 10? ( ... )
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I joke that my t-shirt should say "your mileage may vary," but I am too young to answer any autobiography questions :)
I am at work without my books, so no quotes.
For sheer impact on the world, how about "The Ten Commandments: The Three Thousandth Anniversary Edition?" :)
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Lord of Light, Lord of the Rings, In Search of Lost Time, Ulysses. The OED and Encyclopedia Britannica are tempting cop-out options.
Afterburn
No good quotations spring to mind...
William Marshal's guide to strategy.
Probably something by Daniel Pinkwater, but possibly The Caves of Steel...
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Great minds sink to the same gutters, and apparently, ours do too.
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Presuming that Euell Gibons and David Macintosh are ruled out...
Would I be allowed to count A la recherche du temps perdu as one book? If not, then just ...chez Swann
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros
...and you know, I really might like to find out How to Build a Wooden Boat
What would be the title of your (as yet fictional) autobiography?
torn between Slowly I Learned, Step by Step and Vaster than Empires, and More Slow
Quote a memorable passage (a few lines) of a book you're reading these days.
"By threatening the liberty of the French people to choose their government for themselves, the monarchies gave them a popular, deeply emotional cause such as the territorial and dynastic wars could never have generated. With the old French Army of the Bourbon monarchy disintegrating, and French finances even more chaotically in peril than they had ever been under the ancien régime, the Revolution nevertheless ( ... )
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