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Post by Jen on Apr 20, 2008 12:51:45 GMT -5
This might be interesting....if enough people post...lol.
Say you are throwing a dinner party, and you could invite any 5 authors of your choosing....living or dead. Who would it be and why?
I will reply later after thinking about it a bit.
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Post by HNT on Apr 20, 2008 15:45:47 GMT -5
In no particular order:
1)Salman Rushdie - THe greatest living author in the English language, bar none.
2) Mahatma Gandhi - If you have to ask why, you'll never know
3) Geoffrey Chaucer - Because I like a good fart joke as much as the next guy and he was the master
4) Jesus Christ - Just to setle this thing once and for all. Was he the son of God or merely the author of Carpentry for Dummies?
5) Martin Luther King jr. - Because he was the greatest American who ever lived, and every day that our country exists without his voice is another day that we are not as good as we could have been
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Post by Canetoad on Apr 20, 2008 18:30:36 GMT -5
I didn't know Christ was an author?  This is a toughie. Top of the head Toad list might be: Hunter S Thompson (the cynic) Karl Marx (the idealist) Homer (the raconteur) Arthur C Clark (the visionary) Dorothy Parker (the wit) |
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Post by 7 on Apr 20, 2008 19:48:41 GMT -5
Brilliant Jen, I love this idea.
Pretty tough choice to narrow down five, but here goes:
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
This would be one depressing dinner, but dammit would it be interesting.
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Post by HNT on Apr 21, 2008 8:45:21 GMT -5
I didn't know Christ was an author? This is a fair point. Oh well, now that I kicked taht overly pious douchebag out of my dinner I have an extra seat. I think I'll offer it to Badboy because he sure could write a great script, lol |
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Post by Jen on Apr 21, 2008 10:48:27 GMT -5
All for the same reason....these are the writers that inspired ME to be a writer. Whether that is a good or bad thing remains to be seen.....  Clive Barker Joyce Carol Oates Edgar Allan Poe Algernon Blackwood Tennessee Williams |
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Post by HNT on Apr 21, 2008 10:55:43 GMT -5
Yikes, not me. I love Poe too, but he was way too crazy to hang out and have dnner with (at least for me). I also love Sylvia Plath, but I wouldn't invite her to dinner for the same reason. Hiding all the cutlery and spending the night on suicide watch wouldn't be that much fun, lol |
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Post by Jen on Apr 21, 2008 11:03:49 GMT -5
Yikes, not me. I love Poe too, but he was way too crazy to hang out and have dnner with (at least for me). I also love Sylvia Plath, but I wouldn't invite her to dinner for the same reason. Hiding all the cutlery and spending the night on suicide watch wouldn't be that much fun, lol LOL.....yes, I thought of that.....but really, I couldn't NOT invite him....his writing was too much of a positive influence on me.... It would be interesting at least. I somehow doubt he would eat much. |
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Post by HNT on Apr 21, 2008 12:07:51 GMT -5
Hey, he'd eat more than Gandhi, lol. I was figuring on leftovers
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Post by Canetoad on Apr 22, 2008 5:03:05 GMT -5
You have to have some frisson at a dinner party... so why not Hitler (he qualifies as an author with Mein Kampf)... or perhaps Erica Jong  ... or maybe DH Lawrence... or Ayn Rand? |
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Post by HNT on Apr 22, 2008 10:14:17 GMT -5
You have to have some frisson at a dinner party... so why not Hitler (he qualifies as an author with Mein Kampf)... or perhaps Erica Jong ... or maybe DH Lawrence... or Ayn Rand? Well, I have nothing to learn from Hitler or Ayn Rand. Hitler for obvious reasons, and Ayn RAnd because objectivism is an overly simplistic and self derving philosophy. Not to mention, those fascists who agree with her have always been apologists for her attrocious writing. Erica Jong is an intersting choice. I think it'd be even more fun to invite either Abbie Hoffman or Che Guevara. All in all, thugh, I think I'm gonna stick with Badboy. That man was a genius |
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Post by 7 on Apr 22, 2008 20:55:28 GMT -5
Ok, I think I have derived a quite entertaining dinner party. Mark Twain Ambrose Bierce Oscar Wilde Jonathan Swift James Joyce I think I would pay money to watch these men all talk together over a nice after-dinner tea. As for Ayn Rand, I'm pretty sure she was a repressed lesbian. Oh, and her philosophy is putrid. Himmler would make an interesting choice, I think I might invite him. Although, it might be tough to talk to him considering he really only knows one phrase: "Jawohl mein Führer!". . . or wait, I think I might be confusing him with General Petraeus? |
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Post by Canetoad on Apr 23, 2008 16:54:11 GMT -5
Himmler would make an interesting choice, I think I might invite him. Although, it might be tough to talk to him considering he really only knows one phrase: "Jawohl mein Führer!". . . or wait, I think I might be confusing him with General Petraeus?  Toad chose Ayn Rand, cos no dinner party is complete without a ding-dong ideological argument. If oneof Toad's guests dropped out another fun invitee could be L Ron Hubbard... I'd seat him next to Michael Moore |
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Post by HNT on Apr 23, 2008 18:07:06 GMT -5
If you are gonna invite Michael Moore (who is an excellent choice by the way) then I think the way to get a good fight brewing would be to invite either Dick Cheney or William Kristol. That would be some fireworks, though. I'm not sure that we'd all leave the table alive
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