"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
15 October 2005Emma Bovary says hiPhoebe Gleeson noted that T.J.'s curriculum for the month includes Woody Allen's short story The Kugelmass Episode, which of course set me to thinking, and the result is an open thread of sorts: If you could have yourself transported into any work of fiction, which one would you choose, and why? As always, be sure to show your work. Posted at 8:56 AM to Almost YogurtGREAT question. My first answer is War and Peace for the sheer drama, expanse and, of course, romance. I'll think about other possibilities. Thanks - I'll be thinking about this all day. Posted by: anne at 10:14 AM on 15 October 2005Mine might involve a magic lamp... Posted by: McGehee at 4:12 PM on 15 October 2005and mine would probably involve mice, time travel, and a bowl of petunias, and it would begin at the end of the universe. :) (hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy) Posted by: hatless in hattiesburg at 6:12 PM on 15 October 2005"A Princess of Mars." Because who wouldn't want to race across the dead sea bottoms of dying Barsoom? Posted by: Brett at 9:54 PM on 15 October 2005Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis. Because it would be nice to be on an unfallen planet, watching Jupiter rising over the Martian horizon. . . . Posted by: Jim at 11:39 PM on 15 October 2005Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of the Great War". Because I love the pace and rigors of long-distance walking, and the space and time to contemplate that a slow-moving landscape affords one. But mostly, in the Italian Piedmont setting of that great novel, for the chance to spend days walking with and struggling to absorb the hard-won aesthetics and sensibilities of a wise and noble old gentleman. Posted by: vic at 8:43 AM on 17 October 2005 |