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fpb1. 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.
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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Date: 2005-05-27 03:34 pm (UTC)1 - Why do you think that nice people like you are so much in the minority among fan writers?
2 - Are you looking forward to the next HP novel with excitement, or do you rather dread that Mrs.Rowling might drop the ball at last?
3 - Are you into other fandoms besides HP?
4 - Can you work in other artforms besides writing?
5 - Why on Earth do you not follow Buffy?
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Date: 2005-05-28 07:41 am (UTC)Ah, your naivety, Fabio: if you look through the majority of my LJ it's precisely about me being not nice at all: how many young authors have I ripped the shit out of for their awful fic? How many lives do I ruin every time I click, with glee, that glorious little 'deny' button on the fics at VTM? Probably not a lot, but that's beside the point. I think that by 'nice' you mean 'moderate' and 'not easily offended enough to say OMG FUK U'. That said, probably because many people can't put political alignment behind them, and words like 'conservative' and 'liberal' are demonised so equally that people expect conservatives to be wife beating killers of baby seals, and the opposite camp expects liberals to be, to quote Gore Vidal, 'communists who are paedophiles'. People don't seem to like to see the other side.
2 - Are you looking forward to the next HP novel with excitement, or do you rather dread that Mrs.Rowling might drop the ball at last?
Oh, I'm literally throwing a party on the day. All my friends are lining up at six in the morning for our copy of HBP before we hightail it to my place to read it. I probably wouldn't care too much what JKR does in it, because no matter if she strings up Lupin by his ankles and makes Draco to be the demonised altruist of awful fandom, I'd still probably love it.
3 - Are you into other fandoms besides HP?
Not really. I don't watch enough TV to get into fandom too strongly. I am a member of the Frenz of the Enz fanclub, however, but you can't really write fanfic about them.
4 - Can you work in other artforms besides writing?
I was a film student before I deferred university, and if education or theology don't lure me away it will probably be what I return to next year. I also dabble in the odd bit of song writing, and I'm considering taking on an advanced diploma in film and television acting on the side of university.
5 - Why on Earth do you not follow Buffy?
It seems strange: I think Whedon is a pretty great writer, and it seems like the sort of show I'd like. My boyfriend was a huge Buffy fan, and he always tries to pull it into conversation, only to be met with blank stares by me. I suppose it's the same reason as Q3: I never really had the time to get into it.