My five-questions meme has resulted in several people asking me questions. And since you lot do not know each other and you may all be curious about me (I'm so vain), here are a few, with my answers. ( Read more... )
1. Name someone you might like to meet, just for the sake of the conversation, whom you think you may not like when and if you do, just the conversation (or debate) would be good.
2. What is the best pasta dish there is?
3. Describe the current state of the 'popular media' as it appears to you.
4. If you could go back in time and smack a leader on the back of the head, just because they should've had it done back then, who would it be?
5. Tell me three things that happened to you yesterday.
1)Katharine Hepburn. I had my doubts about her since I heard that she worked in the Wallace campaign in 1948, but she still looked and sounded unique. 2)Fresh tomato, garlic, olive oil and herbs. 3)Let me put it this way: twenty years ago I thought it could not get worse. 4)If it did any good - Mussolini. If he had not started the fad for uniforms and militias, we just might have been spared a lot. 5)I broke some plate glass. I watered a couple of plants. I found that I did not have enough money to pay the rent.
Interesting you choose Venice. My Nuisance Ex has just bought a flat there, so I suppose he would agree with you. I've never been though. (Nor to Rome, shamefully.)
I have been to Venice three times as a child, and I still do not have the words to describe the sense of excitement as you got there and the total uniqueness of the experience. The place is overrun with tourists, of course, but even so it is something that, if you do not see, you never will understand; not even in photographs or video.
Venice is unique and Venice is heartbreaking. Still, I could go back to Venice again. I would tomorrow if I had the means. There are days when I question if I could ever return to Prague...
1. Do you enjoy writing fan fiction as much or more than reading or watching the original inspiration?
2. Have comics had an influence on your political and social views, or do you think your views inform your reading of comics?
3. As a translator I presume you 'think' in a number of different languages. Are there concepts in one language that are literally 'unthinkable' in another. Not a question about you, but one that has interested me for a long time and you are probably the only person I know who could make an attempt at an answer.
4. Who has had the greatest influence on the development of your world-view?
5. What do you find most frustrating about internet discussions?
1.Hard to tell. I do get a rush when a story is really well made, but I also did every time I saw a new episode of Buffy or HP. 2.It certainly strengthened my contempt for establishment views. After the experience of Kirby, Miyazaki, Sergio Toppi, Moebius, or George Herriman, I had no time either for the average movie critic hack using "comic-book" as a term of abuse or for comics fans with inferiority complexes. To the people who spoke of comics as against "the real world", I used to answer that "the real world" included The Sun. 3. Absolutely. One that I have thought a lot about is the Italian adverb of time ormai, which cannot be rendered in English. In terms of pure time, it means by this time, but it has an emotional content - of regret, lost opportunity, "it's too late now" - for which I can think of no English equivalent. 4. Two men, Karl Popper and Georges Dumezil. 5. The same as real-life: people who get "bored" and change the subject when they are losing.
my parents did not trust the Italian educational system in the late 1970s
Interesting. My parents were told not to trust the Italian educational system in the mid-80's, so I took correspondence courses from Canada. I regret it to this day. I think my Italian would been a lot better if they had let me go to school. Even if the system was broken, I was still would have been an quasi-autodidact seeing as I read so voraciously, and I think I would have turned out OK.
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2. What is the best pasta dish there is?
3. Describe the current state of the 'popular media' as it appears to you.
4. If you could go back in time and smack a leader on the back of the head, just because they should've had it done back then, who would it be?
5. Tell me three things that happened to you yesterday.
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2)Fresh tomato, garlic, olive oil and herbs.
3)Let me put it this way: twenty years ago I thought it could not get worse.
4)If it did any good - Mussolini. If he had not started the fad for uniforms and militias, we just might have been spared a lot.
5)I broke some plate glass. I watered a couple of plants. I found that I did not have enough money to pay the rent.
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1. Do you enjoy writing fan fiction as much or more than reading or watching the original inspiration?
2. Have comics had an influence on your political and social views, or do you think your views inform your reading of comics?
3. As a translator I presume you 'think' in a number of different languages. Are there concepts in one language that are literally 'unthinkable' in another. Not a question about you, but one that has interested me for a long time and you are probably the only person I know who could make an attempt at an answer.
4. Who has had the greatest influence on the development of your world-view?
5. What do you find most frustrating about internet discussions?
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2.It certainly strengthened my contempt for establishment views. After the experience of Kirby, Miyazaki, Sergio Toppi, Moebius, or George Herriman, I had no time either for the average movie critic hack using "comic-book" as a term of abuse or for comics fans with inferiority complexes. To the people who spoke of comics as against "the real world", I used to answer that "the real world" included The Sun.
3. Absolutely. One that I have thought a lot about is the Italian adverb of time ormai, which cannot be rendered in English. In terms of pure time, it means by this time, but it has an emotional content - of regret, lost opportunity, "it's too late now" - for which I can think of no English equivalent.
4. Two men, Karl Popper and Georges Dumezil.
5. The same as real-life: people who get "bored" and change the subject when they are losing.
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Interesting. My parents were told not to trust the Italian educational system in the mid-80's, so I took correspondence courses from Canada. I regret it to this day. I think my Italian would been a lot better if they had let me go to school. Even if the system was broken, I was still would have been an quasi-autodidact seeing as I read so voraciously, and I think I would have turned out OK.
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Hon, we all read the blog, we care about you; I can't imagine anyone being a long-term reader and NOT caring.
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