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If you could have Shakespeare to dinner tonight and could invite one other person from history, who would you pick?
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sat, July 28, 2007 - 5:55 PMFrank Lloyd Wright was a genious. Read my blog titled A Place Of Serenity.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sat, July 28, 2007 - 7:07 PMDepends on the topic.
For literary longevity: Shakespeare and Homer
For the art of invention: Shakespeare and Da Vinci
For a discourse on romance: Shakespeare and Jane Austen
For the nature of the human soul: Shakespeare and The Buddha (with Jesus and Lao tzu in the background, heckling.)
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sat, July 28, 2007 - 10:00 PMI wouldn't pick Shakespeare myself... Tesla, Chomsky, Foucault, Jung, Robert Frost, Thoreau, Emerson, Robert Anton Wilson (who died only recently)
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sun, July 29, 2007 - 12:24 PMCharlie Chaplin. He was great friends with Einstein when they were in California. -
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Unsu...
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 12:34 PMWe could all go out together and have drinks ! You, me, Albert, and Charlie..
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 8:40 PMI LOVE Charlie Chaplin. Brilliant man who used his art responsibly, i.e., to speak about what he saw going on in American society. Wasn't afraid to speak his mind about McCarthyism even though it ultimately forced him to leave the country.
But he was socially shy, so I'm not sure how comfortable he'd be at dinner with you and Shakespeare.
Still, he'd probably be my choice, too.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sun, July 29, 2007 - 12:32 PMgene roddenberry
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adolph hitler
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freddie mercury
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 9:08 PM>> Freddie Mercury
YES! Wouldn't that be fun.
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 1:33 PMPersonally, I think it would be highly entertaining to have a round table with Shakespeare and Bill Maher. What fun! -
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 1:50 PMDramatically Incorrect? :) -
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 2:25 PMLMAO...could you even imagine?!
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 5:42 PM
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Unsu...
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Mon, July 30, 2007 - 12:58 AMHmm let's see. Shakespeare and...Ché Guevara.
I can't even imagine what they would talk about! It would be so much fun to make it look like a blinddate. They'd be all shy and blushy...yeah...that sounds good.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Thu, August 2, 2007 - 3:30 AMFirst, I want to raise Ingmar Bergman from the dead, and make him young again.
Second, I want to raise Syd Barrett from the dead, and cure him.
And as far as intellectual luminaries, I don't know . . . Voltaire?
Maybe Andrei Bely.
Don't tell me you "well-hung minds" have never heard of Andrei Bely? -
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Bely, and a movie tip, was: Who would you choose?
Thu, August 2, 2007 - 9:48 AMI have to admit that I hadn't. I wonder if he ever met Scriabin (d. 1905) the composer who was into
mysticism and synaesthesia. There was a very strange movie made about him called "Beat the Deva"
which takes place partially in 1905 St. Petersburg, partly at M.I.T., partly in Sam Spade's office, and partly
on the astral plane.
I loved it. Unfortunately he later made "What the Bleep" which is among other things, a child's garden of mis-
or dis-information about quantum theory. As a professional physicist, I rolled my eyes a lot at that one.
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Re: Bely, and a movie tip, was: Who would you choose?
Sat, August 4, 2007 - 6:17 PMAbout Scriabin: I looked at the Wikipedia page on him; interesting . . . The only thing better than an artist with crazy ideas is a Russian artist with crazy ideas. Haven't seen "Beat the Deva", but I'll have to keep it in mind.
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Sat, August 4, 2007 - 8:38 AMKate Hepburn, if you want a lively dinner you need to have a loud and opinionated woman. Other than me!
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Sun, August 5, 2007 - 9:04 AMI think David Sederis, David Bowie, Shakepeare and me would make a nice table of four. -
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Re: Who would you choose?
Thu, August 9, 2007 - 7:57 PMThose are all fine choices, but why pick someone whoms work is readily available? Sure it would be fun, but there are more mysterious people to pick. also, why pick anyone vastly smarter who speaks in jargon, like Einstein?
Having said that, I would pick Heidi Klum on her 18th birthday -
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Thu, August 9, 2007 - 10:17 PMHi, I'm relatively new here ( been lurking in the background); great topic--
While it's a tough choice to pick a few, these people would be fun:Richard Feynman, Tom Lehrer playing piano, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Geena Davis ( talent and MENSA,wow). -
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Re: Who would you choose?
Fri, August 10, 2007 - 4:36 PMExcellent topic - thanks!
Clifford Geertz - love his work
Phillip Zimbardo - every time I hear him interviewed I think "I wish we could hang out".
Germaine Greer - She's feisty and bitchy and I think she'd be an interesting person to know.
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Fri, November 30, 2007 - 5:22 AMFeynman on bongo drums and Lehrer on piano, now who on string bass? -
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Fri, November 30, 2007 - 7:13 AMOh Lehrer, we love you so.
Why not throw Les Claypool into the mix just to add some extra crazy?
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sun, November 25, 2007 - 9:44 AMWell.... I suppose I could pick Gilgamesh if I wanted to.... wait... no, let's pick Enkidu. I'm STILL more interested to see whether Shakespeare and Chaucer would fall in love with each other or have the epic arteest's fight of the millennia.
Sometimes it’s all about the interaction, not the individual.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sat, August 18, 2007 - 1:45 PMLaurence Olivier. And maybe Tyrone Guthrie.
It would make for great theatre conversation, and maybe we could play Bridge (or Ruff and Honours) afterwards.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sat, August 18, 2007 - 1:57 PMPaul Morphy ... chess prodigy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy
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Re: Who would you choose?
Sun, November 25, 2007 - 3:48 PMmyself from when i was fifteen, i would tell myself all the mistakes i had made in y life and who and how to avoid them, and to hurry up and get to Md so i could meet my future wife. -
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Tue, November 27, 2007 - 2:01 PMAre you sure you'd listen? -
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Thu, November 29, 2007 - 8:17 PMthats what the bat is for, id listen allright. so help me GOD id listen.
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Re: Who would you choose?
Wed, November 28, 2007 - 5:32 AMSamuel Clemens. I wouldn't mind having Charles Dodgson if Shakespeare could wait for another day. If we're going somewhere fireproof, an evening with Spike Milligan and Hunter S. Thompson would be unforgettable.
