Interview #1
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curtana's questions.
1. What's the first book you can remember reading?
I honestly don't remember what the first book I read was. My mother tells me that the first book I read on my own was The Rupert Treasury when I was about two or three years old. She had read it to me over and over and over and over until I knew all the stories by heart, and one day she walked into the living room and found me lying on the floor with the book, readingon of the stories out loud to my dog.
I remember reading The Magical Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair and a whole lot of bande dessinées and Beatrix Potter before going to kindergarten, and that's where I discovered the more well-known books like Clifford and Curious George and all sorts of other books.
I guess the short answer is: I don't remember the first one. The long answer is, there were a lot of books from the very start, so perhaps it's not so unusual that I don't remember which one it was that I read first.
2. What would be your dream job?
My dream job? To be a successful writer. To be able to sit down every morning and tap out about 1,000 to 2,000 words of fiction and be paid to do so. To have an agent and a publisher willing to pay me to do what I love to do.
Then again, I'd have to actually be able to produce written fiction, wouldn't I? :P
*sigh*
3. Do you consider yourself butch, femme, something else, or do you think such labels are meaningless? What are your thoughts on the word "dyke"? (yes, two questions, but too bad ;)
I suppose that I'm somewhere in-between butch and femme. I'm too girly to be completely butch, but I keep my hair very short, I don't wear makeup, I like paintball and beating on people with foam swords. I wear skirts and dresses on occasion and look good in them, but default to pants and sweaters because they're more practical.
In other words, I can't really say. ^_-
Some people have tried to classify me as androgyne, but I don't think anyone with a double-D cup can be classified as androgyne, no matter how hard they try. *rolls eyes* Besides, I like being a girl. I have no issues with my gender, I just don't like to think that my gender should define what I should and and shouldn't do or look like or act like or (insert whatever else comes to mind here).
Labels are very useful things until they cease to be useful, really. If someone chooses to identify by a label, more power to them. It's only when people start to use labels to limit the possibilities of those around them that I start to get annoyed. Labels are there to be stretched, to be challenged, to be redefined. They serve their purpose, and then they should be left behind. People cling to labels because it's safer, because labels give them the illusion of knowledge and understanding.
4. What's the sexiest piece of literature you can think of?
Shakespeare's Sonnets. Yes, it's very conservative of me, but what can I say? Rowrrr.
5. If you could live in any place at any time, where and when would you pick?
Oh, goodness. Erm... Part of me really, really wants to go back in time and seduce Virginia Woolf, except that I'm not sure she would ever find time to write her novels if I got my hands on her, which would be a shame. ^_-
Seriously. I would love to live in England between 1900 and 1939. Before WWII, that is. I wouldn't want to experience that particular horror, but the period before it intrigues me a great deal, and I've always loved its literature. As long as I could wangle my way into its literary circles, I would be pretty content. :)
Here are the answers to
curtana's questions.1. What's the first book you can remember reading?
I honestly don't remember what the first book I read was. My mother tells me that the first book I read on my own was The Rupert Treasury when I was about two or three years old. She had read it to me over and over and over and over until I knew all the stories by heart, and one day she walked into the living room and found me lying on the floor with the book, readingon of the stories out loud to my dog.
I remember reading The Magical Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair and a whole lot of bande dessinées and Beatrix Potter before going to kindergarten, and that's where I discovered the more well-known books like Clifford and Curious George and all sorts of other books.
I guess the short answer is: I don't remember the first one. The long answer is, there were a lot of books from the very start, so perhaps it's not so unusual that I don't remember which one it was that I read first.
2. What would be your dream job?
My dream job? To be a successful writer. To be able to sit down every morning and tap out about 1,000 to 2,000 words of fiction and be paid to do so. To have an agent and a publisher willing to pay me to do what I love to do.
Then again, I'd have to actually be able to produce written fiction, wouldn't I? :P
*sigh*
3. Do you consider yourself butch, femme, something else, or do you think such labels are meaningless? What are your thoughts on the word "dyke"? (yes, two questions, but too bad ;)
I suppose that I'm somewhere in-between butch and femme. I'm too girly to be completely butch, but I keep my hair very short, I don't wear makeup, I like paintball and beating on people with foam swords. I wear skirts and dresses on occasion and look good in them, but default to pants and sweaters because they're more practical.
In other words, I can't really say. ^_-
Some people have tried to classify me as androgyne, but I don't think anyone with a double-D cup can be classified as androgyne, no matter how hard they try. *rolls eyes* Besides, I like being a girl. I have no issues with my gender, I just don't like to think that my gender should define what I should and and shouldn't do or look like or act like or (insert whatever else comes to mind here).
Labels are very useful things until they cease to be useful, really. If someone chooses to identify by a label, more power to them. It's only when people start to use labels to limit the possibilities of those around them that I start to get annoyed. Labels are there to be stretched, to be challenged, to be redefined. They serve their purpose, and then they should be left behind. People cling to labels because it's safer, because labels give them the illusion of knowledge and understanding.
4. What's the sexiest piece of literature you can think of?
Shakespeare's Sonnets. Yes, it's very conservative of me, but what can I say? Rowrrr.
5. If you could live in any place at any time, where and when would you pick?
Oh, goodness. Erm... Part of me really, really wants to go back in time and seduce Virginia Woolf, except that I'm not sure she would ever find time to write her novels if I got my hands on her, which would be a shame. ^_-
Seriously. I would love to live in England between 1900 and 1939. Before WWII, that is. I wouldn't want to experience that particular horror, but the period before it intrigues me a great deal, and I've always loved its literature. As long as I could wangle my way into its literary circles, I would be pretty content. :)
