sweet effay

Siobhan is demanding answers to the following questions, so here goes:

1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
My memory is so appalling that it had better be something small. I’d go for Beckett’s First Love.

2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I’ve read enough psychoanalysis to know that all my crushes are on fictional characters. If you mean characters in books, I only have crushes on people I’ve met. There are several fictional characters I’ve wished I was, if that counts; notably Snufkin from the Moomin books (still do, really), William Brown (Just William, etc.), and Galahad Threepwood from Wodehouse’s Blandings novels.

3. The last book you bought is:
H.G. Wells, Five Great Novels

4. The last book you read:
Asimov, Forward the Foundation. I wouldn’t recommend it.

5. What are you currently reading?
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics and Richard Morgan, Broken Angels.

6. Five books you would take to a desert island.
Melville, Moby Dick – The greatest novel ever written. I never tire of it.
Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow – Like Moby Dick with added sex and better jokes.
Proust, In Search of Lost Time – If it counts as one choice. My second favourite novel.
Kant, The Critique of Judgment – I want the complete works really, but if I have to go for one, that would be it. The more you read Kant, the more you get out of it.
Deleuze – The Logic of Sense. Because I like this one but haven’t spent as much time reading it as most of the others.

7. Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
Pscychbloke to see if he reads anything but comics and Freud.
undercurrent to see if he reads anything but maths books.
kek-w in the hope that he’ll post more pulp covers of Nazis and scantily clad maidens.