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1) Jesus--the things that have been done in his name seem so far from what he was about.
2) Mohammed--see the above.
3) Ghandi--How do you teach non-violence to the most downtrodden, whose only alternative to the liberty they seek seems to be destruction?
4) Mother Theresa--To live day to day doing what is good and what is right in the most squalid conditions on earth, and to see on a day to day basis the near futility of that work must be a hard cross to bear, but she did it with grace, and faith, hope and dignity.
5) Elizabeth I--Because I want to learn from the best.
Runner up: MLK Jr., Leo Davinci, Woodrow Wilson, Arthur (or his historical counterpart),
She's got to have the most amazing sense of humor ever. if you're into sick and twisted humor, which i am. i bet she and gorey would get on spectacularly, but what a divinely morbid dinner party!
1. Eleanor of Aquitaine. My personal hero. Educated, powerful and wily. She ruled the time she lived. The twelfth-century renaissance wouldn't be what it was without her.
2. Elizabeth I. See above. Switch out time periods.
3. Jesus. So cliche. But it would be rilly rilly interesting dinner conversation.
4. Shakespeare. I don't want to know if he wrote his plays--he did. What I want to know is if he put the deep thought Shakespeare snobs say he did, into the plays he had to write in order to eat. Okay, so I've got a bias there.
5. My grandmothers as young women. Before life beat them down, who were they?
One grandmother was the valedictorian of her high school class in Sunrise, Louisiana and the other was a gifted singer. Neither were able (due to the time in which they lived) to pursue their passions--I would have liked to have known them when the world was still their oyster.
1. Leonardo Da Vinci. Just be be near such a great mind!
2. Jesus of Nazareth. I have always been so curious about his life - I want to meet the person that had such a profound effect on humanity.
3. Andrea Palladio. Once and for all, I'd like to know if the San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice (Renaissance monastery) is based on Vitruvius' Temple at Fano (First century AD). I wrote my senior thesis conjecturing about this and never felt like I really got to the bottom of it.
4. I'm going with adiaraven: My grandmothers as young women.
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2. Ben Franklin. Just for some small glimmer of insight into how the man's brain worked.
3. Cleopatra. Intruiging, powerful, full of juicy gossip.
4. Jackie Robinson. Because I live in Brooklyn and he's my hero.
5. Ada Lovelace. I'm very curious as to what was in her mind.
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and possibly scorchingly hot, too. which is never bad. :)
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2) Mohammed--see the above.
3) Ghandi--How do you teach non-violence to the most downtrodden, whose only alternative to the liberty they seek seems to be destruction?
4) Mother Theresa--To live day to day doing what is good and what is right in the most squalid conditions on earth, and to see on a day to day basis the near futility of that work must be a hard cross to bear, but she did it with grace, and faith, hope and dignity.
5) Elizabeth I--Because I want to learn from the best.
Runner up: MLK Jr., Leo Davinci, Woodrow Wilson, Arthur (or his historical counterpart),
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1) Eleanor of Aquitaine, ever since I read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.
2) Shirley Jackson. She's got to have the most amazing sense of humor ever.
3) Patricia Highsmith. Tom Ripley/Dickie Greenleaf: Canon?
4) Janis Joplin
5) Edward Gorey
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if you're into sick and twisted humor, which i am. i bet she and gorey would get on spectacularly, but what a divinely morbid dinner party!
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1. Eleanor of Aquitaine. My personal hero. Educated, powerful and wily. She ruled the time she lived. The twelfth-century renaissance wouldn't be what it was without her.
2. Elizabeth I. See above. Switch out time periods.
3. Jesus. So cliche. But it would be rilly rilly interesting dinner conversation.
4. Shakespeare. I don't want to know if he wrote his plays--he did. What I want to know is if he put the deep thought Shakespeare snobs say he did, into the plays he had to write in order to eat. Okay, so I've got a bias there.
5. My grandmothers as young women. Before life beat them down, who were they?
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2. Jesus of Nazareth. I have always been so curious about his life - I want to meet the person that had such a profound effect on humanity.
3. Andrea Palladio. Once and for all, I'd like to know if the San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice (Renaissance monastery) is based on Vitruvius' Temple at Fano (First century AD). I wrote my senior thesis conjecturing about this and never felt like I really got to the bottom of it.
4. I'm going with adiaraven: My grandmothers as young women.
5. For fun: Jim Morrison!
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and i bet he WAS a lot of fun. until he got too drunk and drugged up and passed out, of course. *grin*
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