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Partners must complement each other, i.e., balance each other out.

What is something good about growing old(er)?

knowing the to-do list is closer to its end (in a good way)

Have you ever seen or read Alice in Wonderland? I haven't.

Yes--both. The Disney Movie is a mishmash of scenes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

The original books and illustrations are hilarious and the best examples of nonsense literature ever.

Do you see familiar places in your mind as you read?

YES!! !! I've been thinking about this lately. I have a repetoire of familiar places / scenes that I frequently see.
I also get really random flashbacks of totally random images from childhood. They seem to have predictable triggers.
For example, I frequently flash back to a break wall I walked on as a little girl. There's no importance to the memory but I see it all the time, even when I read. I think the flashbacks reinforce themselves over time, if that makes sense.

Are you able to picture the characters? I totally can't, other than a general body type or clothing. I don't really even try to see their faces. It amazes me how classic authors could write pages describing a person's features. I wouldn't have words for any of that.

Faces are somewhat vague and generic at best. It depends on how much of a point the author makes at facial description, I guess.

Who's your favorite Dickens character?

(I can't picture faces even when they're described).

Miss Havisham comes to mind. I love wacky, eccentric characters.

Do you think Heathcliff was Earnshaw's illegitimate child? (Or, from whence did he come?)

Miss Havisham for me, too!

I've always taken Earnshaw's magnanimity at face value (that Heathcliff was a foundling). But that's probably due to my refusal to believe a relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine would have been illicit/incestual. Catherine's is only completely herself when she is with Heathcliff, and their separation should never have taken place.

Am I too much of a Romantic?

I get the silhouette and non definite appearance thing involving characters when reading, although the settings and scenery are clearly formed as collaged integrations from what I have seen or imagined.

When it comes to thinking about characters and their appearances in my imagination, they start hazy but eventually as events transpire they become precisely defined in their appearance. Their characters and motivations are their's though, and it is more a case of learning from them where they live, how they have grown and all that. Piecing together the story line and which parts of the characters lives are most befitting ~ that is the time consuming part, but none the less fascinating.

My favourite reading materials are historic and science fiction ~ what's yours?

Do you believe Heathcliff was West-Indian, like Bertha? He is described as a dark, gypsy foundling who was begging on the streets in Liverpool.

Who is your favourite WH character? If there can be such a thing amongst such scoundrels?

My special interest is British Victorian Literature. I don't read very much else although I have two English degrees so I've had to do my fair share of all the classics and genres. I haven't read any sci fi that I can think of, except for 1984.

Which historic eras do you find most interesting?

It's very possible that he was; the term gypsy was applied so loosely at the time. Bertha is wealthier Creole, but, they are both accused of madness. It's also possible that the sisters met someone from that part of the world who made a strong impression on them, so that "otherness" came to be associated in both of their minds with West Indian/Creole complexion.

My favorite WH character is actually Joseph. With that dialect, I think, I've always been entertained by him!

Which historic eras do you find most interesting?
20th century, 19th, 18th, etc, 14th century;good book, interesting times; A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
if any i'd like to visit Tuscany, that's large in eras also

same q, Which historic eras do you find most interesting?

Ancient cultures focused upon geometric-symbolic metaphysics and vibrational architectures, i.e. cave, barrow, stone-circles, pyramids and buildings and so fourth involving the ionic spiral and golden-ratio-fibonacci-pattern stuff ~ in terms of colour, shape and so so utterly not the maths as I do Dyscalculia rather well.

In terms of by comparison more modern literature though ~ the Elizabethan to Victorian eras of writing are my very happy retreats, with Shakespeare's Comedies, along with Dickens and Austen being my main favourites. If I had to choose one book from each, S's 'Romeo and Juliet', D's 'Great Expectations' and A's 'Emma' (although Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice keep vying for position to go with Great Expectations ~ although the meddling matchmaking of Emma just has a degree more appeal methinks).

I read Jane Eyre but not Wuthering Heights (just watched the black and white film/movie), although the appeal to read the first again and then anew the other has been increasing other the years ~ as I just love traditional etiquette in sociological and romantic terms etc. Reading what you and Redxk have been discussing has been fanning the embers there for me ~ so thanks for that.

Regarding having read only 1984 as far as science fiction goes ~ if you are only going to do one thing of a range it might as well of been that one of the range, sort of thing. I used to at length discuss it with a friend who gave me a collectors edition as I read the book before my teenage years, through which I started having break downs and my memory of things got a bit fragmented, and he wanted to go into more detail with the text itself ~ so getting that copy of 1984 and going Aspertechian on it was a major double bonus for me. Incidentally I have not read it in twenty plus years so as not to damage it, but I got it out a week ago to do so again.

Do you find it easy to or do you even watch films/movies adapted from books that you have read ~ as I really appreciate the effort it takes to do cinematic adaptations, and I have friends conversely who get really wound up by it?

i prefer reading to seeing people pretend-play

what's your usual breakfast?

I prefer reading too ~ but I have theatrical friends and appreciate the art involved. A classic was this bloke at a bar going on and on about how he could see through actors and actresses 'pretences', and an actress who sat right next to him started sobbing and he was just about to go all gentleman factor ten ~ then she went through every facial expression in the book! To which she added, "Can you really . . . ?" He was very very impressed, so much so in fact that he went to many of her performances thereafter. She performed roles about abusive relationships and addictions to raise awareness of these issues, which was a therapeutic process for her.


Porridge with salt and cinnamon to flavour in the winter, and Cornflakes and stevia to sweeten in the summer ~ with dried fruit muesli to mediate during autumn and spring for a few weeks sometimes.

And yourself?

Toast or omelette with cheese.

Do you prefer coffee or tea?