Interview from Raki
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eredienThe rules:
1. Leave a comment in this post if you want to be interviewed by moi.
2. I'll reply with your questions in the same thread.
3. Post the questions in your own LJ, along with their answers and this message, which is not a test.
4. People reply to your post asking to be interviewed. You give them questions of your own.
5. This is the meme that never ends, yes, it goes on and on, my friends.
1. Why do you write?
Because I want to change people's lives through changing their thoughts. I want to show them that language is beautiful. Because it is something that I can do, and do well, and have a duty to share with others. Because I'm a storyteller while I breathe.
2. Tell me something about green.
One of the most pleasant sounds in the world is that of waking up to the sounds of the tree-leaves rustling over each other. Occasionally this sound invades my dreams so I wake up with hazy images of watching the leaves slide over each other in a forest with the afternoon sun filtering through like glass. They're always aspens.
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I would say Bryn Mawr. But there's too much stress there for that to be a good permanent home for anyone. Except possibly M. Carey.
With people I love, and I wouldn't care where as long as I had first amendment rights and didn't wilt in extreme heat. Best if somewhere with nature, but not completely necessary.
4. Where do you feel safe?
Nowhere, with the exception of the homes of two people, Evelyn and Kent. Occasionally sometimes I feel safe in martial arts class, or when I'm playing the piano or writing, but that's because so much of myself is absorbed into the task that it's not a matter of feeling "safe," it's a matter of not feeling anything except an emotion which I can only decribe as "doing the task at hand." So deep that safety doesn't matter, or isn't an issue.
5. How do you feel after a good, long Tai Chi session?
Energized and exhausted. I could (and often have) done such things as gone out to dinner (which normally takes a monumental effort of emotion on my part, as being with people is draining for me) or done another few hours of martial arts or talked until two in the morning. I could also (and often have) just taken a shower and immediately crept into bed and fallen asleep (also a rare occurence).
Happy and mellow, yet knowing I could do still more. Satisfied because of that.
1. Leave a comment in this post if you want to be interviewed by moi.
2. I'll reply with your questions in the same thread.
3. Post the questions in your own LJ, along with their answers and this message, which is not a test.
4. People reply to your post asking to be interviewed. You give them questions of your own.
5. This is the meme that never ends, yes, it goes on and on, my friends.
1. Why do you write?
Because I want to change people's lives through changing their thoughts. I want to show them that language is beautiful. Because it is something that I can do, and do well, and have a duty to share with others. Because I'm a storyteller while I breathe.
2. Tell me something about green.
One of the most pleasant sounds in the world is that of waking up to the sounds of the tree-leaves rustling over each other. Occasionally this sound invades my dreams so I wake up with hazy images of watching the leaves slide over each other in a forest with the afternoon sun filtering through like glass. They're always aspens.
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I would say Bryn Mawr. But there's too much stress there for that to be a good permanent home for anyone. Except possibly M. Carey.
With people I love, and I wouldn't care where as long as I had first amendment rights and didn't wilt in extreme heat. Best if somewhere with nature, but not completely necessary.
4. Where do you feel safe?
Nowhere, with the exception of the homes of two people, Evelyn and Kent. Occasionally sometimes I feel safe in martial arts class, or when I'm playing the piano or writing, but that's because so much of myself is absorbed into the task that it's not a matter of feeling "safe," it's a matter of not feeling anything except an emotion which I can only decribe as "doing the task at hand." So deep that safety doesn't matter, or isn't an issue.
5. How do you feel after a good, long Tai Chi session?
Energized and exhausted. I could (and often have) done such things as gone out to dinner (which normally takes a monumental effort of emotion on my part, as being with people is draining for me) or done another few hours of martial arts or talked until two in the morning. I could also (and often have) just taken a shower and immediately crept into bed and fallen asleep (also a rare occurence).
Happy and mellow, yet knowing I could do still more. Satisfied because of that.
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22/8/03 05:28 (UTC)(no subject)
22/8/03 06:24 (UTC)(no subject)
22/8/03 08:03 (UTC)(no subject)
22/8/03 08:28 (UTC)And one fore you (if that's allowed)
1.Which thing you do (writing, piano, school etc) would you consider to be your personal "thing you do" and why?
(yes that was badly phrased, sorry)
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22/8/03 08:58 (UTC)2. What is your favorite Blackadder episode, and why?
3. Describe the best thing you ever tasted.
4. Tell us about a time when your conceptions of the world were profoundly altered.
5. Please leave a favorite quote and explain why you like it.
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22/8/03 21:05 (UTC)2. Tell me one nice thing about the Australian landscape.
3. Favorite musical instrument, and why.
4. Please talk about a small memory from childhood that doesn't mean much really but shaped you into who you are today. If there is such a thing for you.
5. Describe your favorite object.
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22/8/03 21:08 (UTC)2. What does "Istarwen" mean?
3. Please describe what you think of Tolkien's short story "Tree and Leaf." (If you haven't read it, pick something else by Tolkien to describe).
4. Do you ever make up languages?
5. Which of the elements do you most feel connected to: earth, air, fire, or water? And why? Combinations of elements are ok.
Questions for you first...
22/8/03 21:13 (UTC)2. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, which song would you pick and why?
3. Do you believe that animals are intelligent? If so, where do you draw the line between "possibly intelligent creature" and "definitely nonintelligent?" Do you draw such a line?
4. What is the strangest sound you've ever heard?
5. Please describe for us something small and beautiful.
..and then an answer
22/8/03 21:22 (UTC)I would say "music" and "writing" are actually the same thing for me, in essence, because they're both about giving form or expression to an emotional shape.
The process to go about getting there is different, and the end result is the same, but there's something essentially me about both of those.
The fact that I recognized that they were both essentially the same for me, and also realized the reason why they were both the same for me, was a cool thing that later led to other realizations.
And so the answer is: the recognition of the similarities, differences, and intertwinings between things is the thing that I do, the "me" thing.
That comes out most strongly in my writing. But that's what I mean, more or less, when I say that I'm a storyteller.