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dhampyresa) wrote2018-11-15 12:01 am
dhampyresa) wrote2018-11-15 12:01 am
Five questions
From tamsin.
What's your most re-read book?
Hard to say. I don't do a lot of rereading. I barely do any reading these days.
I think probably my collected edition of the first five comics of Joann Sfar's Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat). It's a slice of life, magical realism comic set in 1930s Algers (with occasional trips to other places), where a rabbi's cat gains the power of speech. It's absolutely DELIGHTFUL. It's very... cozy? Kind? Like a hug in comic form? Not sure how to put it, but I love it. I find it extremely grounding and so tend to reread all or part of it when in certain uneasy emotional states.
If you could change one aspect in a canon you love what would it be?
GIVE ME A SCARLET WITCH MOVIE MCU YOU COWARDS
Have you ever been to Germany or Austria? If yes how did you like it?
I have taken some brief school trips to Germany, but have never been to Austria. I enjoyed Köln a lot! I do not remember with any certainty what other cities we went to, oops. I would very much enjoy going back to Köln, see the Christmas market and do the cathedral again. Also I had this AMAZING hot chocolate made from white chocolate, but good luck finding that place again, hahaha
Do you find that the language you read a poem in influences what you think of it and how it affects you?
As much as possible, I read things in their language of origin and no other, so I don't really feel qualified to answer this.
Although, funnily enough, when listening to the sung version of Anjela Duval's Karantez Vro (a poem in Breton, English translation by yours truly) the parts that most resonated with me, even without knowing what they meant are the same ones that resonate with me most, knowing the meaning. (To wit: "Ar morioù bras, ar Broioù pell"/"deep seas and faraway lands", "Maezioù ken kaer va Breizh-Izel!"/"The beautiful countrysides of my Lower Brittany." and "Va Bro, va Yezh ha va Frankiz!"/"My country, my language and my freedom.")
What's one aspect of politics in France that you like/dislike?
BOY DO I DISLIKE THE RAMPANT FASCISM
I also vastly dislike the, idk what to call it, Saviour narrative? It's like we're always waiting for the next de Gaulle, the next Jeanne d'Arc to show up and save us.
tamsin.What's your most re-read book?
Hard to say. I don't do a lot of rereading. I barely do any reading these days.
I think probably my collected edition of the first five comics of Joann Sfar's Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat). It's a slice of life, magical realism comic set in 1930s Algers (with occasional trips to other places), where a rabbi's cat gains the power of speech. It's absolutely DELIGHTFUL. It's very... cozy? Kind? Like a hug in comic form? Not sure how to put it, but I love it. I find it extremely grounding and so tend to reread all or part of it when in certain uneasy emotional states.
If you could change one aspect in a canon you love what would it be?
GIVE ME A SCARLET WITCH MOVIE MCU YOU COWARDS
Have you ever been to Germany or Austria? If yes how did you like it?
I have taken some brief school trips to Germany, but have never been to Austria. I enjoyed Köln a lot! I do not remember with any certainty what other cities we went to, oops. I would very much enjoy going back to Köln, see the Christmas market and do the cathedral again. Also I had this AMAZING hot chocolate made from white chocolate, but good luck finding that place again, hahaha
Do you find that the language you read a poem in influences what you think of it and how it affects you?
As much as possible, I read things in their language of origin and no other, so I don't really feel qualified to answer this.
Although, funnily enough, when listening to the sung version of Anjela Duval's Karantez Vro (a poem in Breton, English translation by yours truly) the parts that most resonated with me, even without knowing what they meant are the same ones that resonate with me most, knowing the meaning. (To wit: "Ar morioù bras, ar Broioù pell"/"deep seas and faraway lands", "Maezioù ken kaer va Breizh-Izel!"/"The beautiful countrysides of my Lower Brittany." and "Va Bro, va Yezh ha va Frankiz!"/"My country, my language and my freedom.")
What's one aspect of politics in France that you like/dislike?
BOY DO I DISLIKE THE RAMPANT FASCISM
I also vastly dislike the, idk what to call it, Saviour narrative? It's like we're always waiting for the next de Gaulle, the next Jeanne d'Arc to show up and save us.