Thanks to La duchesse d’Erat for The Great Book of Lists challenge and to Mandibelle16 for this week’s prompt:
« I was thinking we could do a list of the people we’d like to meet throughout history. Anyone dead or alive. Relative, movie star, singer, etc. »
Who I’d Invite to My Dinner Party – The Great Book of Lists 3.1
- Charles Dickens: My favorite writer
- My grandparents: I’ve lost all of my grandparents now, but I’d love the chance to share a meal with them again. I feel like some of them died before I got a chance to appreciate their wisdom.
- William Shakespeare: I have a *lot* of questions for this man!
- Jesus Christ: Again, so many questions I’d like to ask.
- Barack and Michelle Obama: I find both of these people to be passionate and thoughtful.
- Oprah Winfrey: She’s met everyone, so I’m sure she has some great stories to tell!.
- Richard Branson: The guy is crazy brilliant and so passionate.
Who would you invite to your dinner table if you had the chance?
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My guests would include Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Dante, Boccaccio, several U.S presidents, Hermann Hesse, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Harrison, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Jaroslav Seifert, and Andrey Voznesenskiy. I’m such an incurable intellectual.
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I’d love to meet Jane Austen, my favorite author. We’d meet up at a coffee/tea shop in Ann Arbor.She’d have a biting wit and an uncanny knack for seeing people as they are as if 200 yrs difference meant nothing.
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I initially had Austen on my list but then decided I should change it up some. My first instinct is always to just list a bunch of my favorite authors–or better yet, my favorite characters!
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Interesting choices, Amy! And… yeah.. I would love to see Jesus too. BUt maybe not too soon? 😀 (Kidding! :D)
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Yes, that could be a problematic dinner invitation, but Jesus could keep things peaceful when everyone else tried to talk over one another!
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#4 and 6 definitely not on my dinner list. Substitute the Dalai Lama and Abraham Licoln.
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Good choices! I’d love to get all the religious originators in a room to have a good comparative religions conversation. I wonder if they’d get along…
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