Interview meme from Agatha S. - comment and I will interview you (if I can think of questions

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1. What is the most beautiful place in the world you've visited?
Venice. Beyond comparison, expectation, or belief. And then there is Villa d'Este in Tivoli.
2. Which magical object, spell or potion from the Harry Potter books do you wish existed in real life?
Goodness! The Time-Turner, probably.
3. Which languages that you don't know yet would you most like to learn?
Pahlavi, Persian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Accadian, ancient Egyptian. And among those I know a little, I would greatly like to improve my Classical Greek, Icelandic, Sanskrit, Old English, Welsh, and Old Irish. And why not a few Slavonic languages while I'm at it?
4. What would be more difficult for you to bear: living on a deserted island, or living in a permanently crowded place?
Desert island, unless it had cable and internet. I have always lived in big cities - Milan, Rome, London. I did my National Service in a small Italian town, L'Aquila, and nearly went crazy.
5. Which character traits do you see as most important in a friend?
I am not quite sure, because I am not sure why people become friends - why you choose one person out of dozens of people with excellent qualities to confide in and support and help and argue with and share experiences with. But once you are a friend, the most important virtue without any doubt is loyalty.

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About the circle of friends and acquaintances: yes, it is kind of weird. Even including people I defriended, one tends to meet a lot of people one has met before. And yet there are something like 5000 fanfic writers in FA alone, a lot of them quite good and very intelligent and endowed with LiveJournals. Personally, I only managed a break-out when I looked for new friends who had, among their interests, "pro-life movement". I did meet four or five folks that way whom I had never heard of before and might probably never have encountered otherwise. Perhaps that is what you should do.