dinner party meme
Continuing the meme from
adoor's
continuation, "If you could throw a dinner party for twenty guests (living or dead) who would you invite?"
My list (in no particular order):
Benjamin Franklin
J. R. R. Tolkein
Joseph Campbell
Robert Gregg
Baruch Spinoza
John Donne
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Jefferson --actually, the whole team: him, Hamilton, Washington, etc...
Mae West
Dorothy Parker
Queen Maeve of Connacht
Albert Einstein
St. Augustine of Hippo
Jack Kerouac
Pablo Neruda
King Edward I of England
Hypatia of Alexandria
Gloria Steinem
Michael of Cesena
...and one of the first black women to break the color line mid-20c, preferably a musician. (Need to think more about which)
This isn't neccessarily the list of people I'd like to speak to, but a list of people to lock together in a party for sheer devilment's sake - and for the interesting conversation.
(Robert Gregg, btw, is a prof at Stanford, and an extraordinary fellow - the rest are all in the books)
( and...Collapse )I'd be quite interested to see more people's lists; it's remarkably evocative to think of these things.
