A Quiz.
THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE
-Fall in love with some beautiful men and women.
-Be loved by some beautiful men and women.
-Write good, interesting, and intelligent plays and novels.
-Travel. Live in Norway and Sweden. Live in Scotland. Live in France. And yes, live in India (voluntarily), but only if I have a lover.
-Be part of a meaningful artistic revolution.
THINGS I CANNOT DO
- Get married to a boy of the same "caste" who has replied to a matrimonial ad selling me and cover my head when I see my mum-in-law etc., forget about free love, stamp on Shelley and cultivate homophobia and eventually die of claustrophobia.
- Give up on myself.
- Stop being optimistic [ generally.]
THINGS I SAY MOST OFTEN
-Ah well.
-Do you like Shelley?
-Um.
SEVEN BOOKS I LOVE
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf.
- A Room With a View - E.M. Forster.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
- Poetry, Essays and Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Shelley.
- Collected Short Stories - E.M. Forster.
- Villette - Charlote Bronte.
- The plays of Howard Brenton.
SEVEN MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER
- Breakfast At Tiffany's.
- Casablanca.
- Dr Zhivago.
- A Room With a View.
- Everybody Says I'm Fine.
- Mughal - e - Azam.
- Something by Ingmar Bergman or Francois Truffaut which I haven't watched as yet.
SEVEN PEOPLE TO DO THIS NEXT -
All of you who want to do this, or who want to do this over again.
-Fall in love with some beautiful men and women.
-Be loved by some beautiful men and women.
-Write good, interesting, and intelligent plays and novels.
-Travel. Live in Norway and Sweden. Live in Scotland. Live in France. And yes, live in India (voluntarily), but only if I have a lover.
-Be part of a meaningful artistic revolution.
THINGS I CANNOT DO
- Get married to a boy of the same "caste" who has replied to a matrimonial ad selling me and cover my head when I see my mum-in-law etc., forget about free love, stamp on Shelley and cultivate homophobia and eventually die of claustrophobia.
- Give up on myself.
- Stop being optimistic [ generally.]
THINGS I SAY MOST OFTEN
-Ah well.
-Do you like Shelley?
-Um.
SEVEN BOOKS I LOVE
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf.
- A Room With a View - E.M. Forster.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
- Poetry, Essays and Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Shelley.
- Collected Short Stories - E.M. Forster.
- Villette - Charlote Bronte.
- The plays of Howard Brenton.
SEVEN MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER
- Breakfast At Tiffany's.
- Casablanca.
- Dr Zhivago.
- A Room With a View.
- Everybody Says I'm Fine.
- Mughal - e - Azam.
- Something by Ingmar Bergman or Francois Truffaut which I haven't watched as yet.
SEVEN PEOPLE TO DO THIS NEXT -
All of you who want to do this, or who want to do this over again.