If 1 day with someone who isn't alive any longer - who?

Page 2 of 3 [ 42 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

Previous topic | Next topic

Mindsigh
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 29 May 2012
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,272
Location: Ailleurs

26 Jun 2013, 11:24 am

My mom. I keep finding funny things that I want to tell her about.

_________________
"Lonely is as lonely does.
Lonely is an eyesore."

No
Toucan
Toucan

Joined: 9 Jun 2013
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 276

26 Jun 2013, 2:39 pm

I don't... know.

Cilantro
Velociraptor

Joined: 7 Apr 2013
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Posts: 450
Location: Minnesota, USA

26 Jun 2013, 4:26 pm

I'd like to meet Robert Frost to see what he's like in person compared to the way he writes. Just a cup of coffee or whatever people talked over in his day. I don't think I could take being reunited with deceased family or friends for just a day.

naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 70
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

26 Jun 2013, 8:04 pm

To hang with for a day.

Mark Twain.

George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde, tied for second.

apequake
Raven
Raven

Joined: 24 Jun 2013
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 115
Location: Virginia

26 Jun 2013, 9:10 pm

Hunter S. Thompson

He would be a sensory overload, but he would not need my emotional input, just bring me along for the ride. We could chat sports, politics and gonzo journalism. However, I think I could tolerate more over the mojo wire (his term for a fax machine).

glider18
Supporting Member

Joined: 8 Nov 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,062
Location: USA

26 Jun 2013, 9:37 pm

myn22 wrote:

Erik Satie..............

What a wonderful choice...Satie...one of my favorites. A day with Satie...ahh...the eccentricities. I can see it now. A gift of an umbrella would be appreciated for the collection. And, anything eaten must be white---you know...potatoes, cauliflower, hominy, fish, meat fat, ground up bones, etc. And now for a Gymnopedie or two...or three.

_________________
"My journey has just begun."

RedHanrahan
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 1 Sep 2007
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,204
Location: Aotearoa/New Zealand

27 Jun 2013, 5:03 pm

Peter Kropotkin. At some point between his return to Russia[USSR] and his death but while absolutely lucid.

My reasoning is that I would like to discuss his theories and compare notes concerning the world today, this would of course require his believing my story of time travel and understand the world I describe - 24 hours is not long to do all this in.

peace j

_________________
Just because we can does not mean we should.

What vision is left? And is anyone asking?

Have a great day!

puddingmouse
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 24 Apr 2010
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,777
Location: Cottonopolis

27 Jun 2013, 5:43 pm

Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Shakespeare.

_________________
Zombies, zombies will tear us apart...again.

Raymond_Fawkes
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 15 Sep 2010
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,209

27 Jun 2013, 7:16 pm

Definitely family. Specifically, probably my grandfather. Non family? Maybe Tesla.. or Issac Newton.

RedHogRider
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 20 Jun 2013
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Posts: 48
Location: Nowhere

27 Jun 2013, 9:02 pm

My dad. He died when I was 13 and I didn't get to know him very well before that. I would have liked to known him now that I'm a man.

VIDEODROME
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,691

28 Jun 2013, 3:37 pm

ChromaticRaven wrote:

Who would you choose to meet?

Which year would you travel back to?

And, what would you like to do?

(If you only feel like answering one of the questions above that's fine to)

Philip K. Dick

1981

Mostly just talk about Science Fiction in general or some of his views on Religion especially Taoism. Right now i'm halfway through VALIS so I'd ask about that. I'd ask about films at that time. Apparently, when Star Wars came out the main thing he liked about it was The Force.

Inevitably, some conversations about drugs would come up. I would be very curious if he was familiar with DMT. I'm sure he did LSD.

puddingmouse
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 24 Apr 2010
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,777
Location: Cottonopolis

28 Jun 2013, 7:17 pm

Another idea would be to go back to 1960 and tell Joe Meek what was going to happen to him and how he could avoid it. Then I would return home to 2013 and go on iTunes straight away and look for songs that didn't get to exist.

_________________
Zombies, zombies will tear us apart...again.

babybird
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 11 Nov 2011
Gender: Female
Posts: 88,948
Location: UK

29 Jun 2013, 1:09 pm

My Dad

_________________
We have existence

ThatRedHairedGrrl
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 May 2008
Age: 56
Gender: Female
Posts: 912
Location: Walking through a shopping mall listening to Half Japanese on headphones

29 Jun 2013, 3:49 pm

VIDEODROME wrote:

ChromaticRaven wrote:

Who would you choose to meet?

Which year would you travel back to?

And, what would you like to do?

(If you only feel like answering one of the questions above that's fine to)

You really need to get hold of The Exegesis, which contains part of Dick's journals detailing his visionary experiences. My husband is a big PKD fan, and he's been working his way through them, but he says it's a really odd bunch of stuff to get your head round, even for anyone already familiar with Dick's work. You'd probably appreciate it.

_________________
"Grunge? Isn't that some gross shade of greenish orange?"

ShadeOfTheEvening
Hummingbird

Joined: 2 Jul 2013
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Posts: 24
Location: Buenos Aires

07 Jul 2013, 9:08 pm

I would hang out with info-dump and stalk for a whole day either of the following:
Leonardo Da Vinci
Isaac Newton
John R R Tolkien

slushy9
Raven
Raven

Joined: 29 Jun 2013
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 120

07 Jul 2013, 10:39 pm

tesla before he was crazy, mozart, beethoven before he went crazy lol

Page 2 of 3 [ 42 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

Jump to:

If 1 day with someone who isn't alive any longer - who? Post Reply New Topic

If 1 day with someone who isn't alive any longer - who?