Great-grandson Of Interview Returns!

[gothwalk]

If you want me to ask you five questions, comment below. Otherwise, here're the five that ezrael asked me.

1) What is the single thing you have done in your life that you consider the most important?

Straight in at the deep end, eh? There're two ways to answer that. One is most important to me, the other is most important to someone else. The most important to me was dropping out of college, which was the start of doing what was right for me, not what everyone else expected me to do. The most important to someone else... I don't know. I'm not sure I can say that, because I'm sure there are a hundred and one things that seemed fine and noble to me, and were instantly forgotten by everyone else, and equally, things that I did in throwaway moments that have changed people's lives.

2) Planescape or Manual of the Planes?

Planescape, definitely. So much flavour, so many ideas, such fabulous concepts. The only fantasy setting out there that isn't either Tolkien-based, or distinctly and definitely not Tolkien-based. Not that there's anything wrong with Tolkien, of course, but variety is good, and fantasy doesn't have enough of it. The Manual of the Planes is a nice book, but kinda dull compared.

3) Bought my book yet? If not, why not?

At this very moment, I have a mail from Chris Roberson in my inbox, telling me how to buy internationally. I shall be buying Things That Never Were shortly..

4) Any interest in playing a lizardman in a play by email/chat game?

Lizardmen have never really done it for me, and I really don't have time for another game, unfortunately. PBeM might be doable, but chat requires being online at a given time, and I'm terribly bad at that.

5) What are your 5 favorite novels and why?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig), because it changed the way I think.

Adventures of Wim (Luke Rheinhart), because it says that the search for enlightenment can happen wherever you are.

Magician (Raymond E. Feist), because it's the book that really started me in fantasy.

American Gods (Neil Gaiman), because it's all true.

and

A Wizard Abroad (Diane Duane), partly because it's set in places I know - my mother's homeplace is the farm in the book - and party because it encouraged me to look at Ireland, contemporary times, and plotlines, each in a new and different way.

[Still to come on gothwalk's lj: Interview from nisaba. We'll be back after this morning's work.]

Comments

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

1. What religion were you brought up with, and what was missing from it?
2. Do you play in the CAM for the LARP aspects, or the setting/gameworld?
3. What are your personal beliefs concerning the afterlife?
4. Why did you come to Ireland, as opposed to the UK or the US?
5. Do you ever regret leaving Switzerland?