picking your reality (not your nose)

[papalovesmambo]

picking your reality (not your nose)#0

Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:50pm

browsing the harry potter whore thread gave me an idea:

if you could choose to live within the reality of a work of fiction (or a series of works) which would it be and why?

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

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he was the gimmicky sort

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[BroadwayDiva]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#1

Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:59pm

I'd love to live in Hogwarts, because magic fascinates me.

But the other place would be in Clive Barker's Abarat world. I read that book SO many times because the whole concept of it was amazing. It has all of these places that are SO different than our world, such as the land of the 25th hour, the island full of creatures that sing, scary little cat-type things, etc.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[StickToPriest]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#2

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:08pm

Narnia. No question.


But Hogwarts is a close second.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#3

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:13pm

Hah...i would have to live in the world of Hairspray on brodaway. Walk down the David Rockwellian streets of Baltimore where everyone dresses in William Ivey Long's colourful clothes and has hair like Paul Huntley's wigs and sings Shaiman-Whittman tunes and moves like Jerry Mitchell choreographed them...What an amazing world that would be.

Akiva

[spiderdj82]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#4

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:14pm

Narnia would rock, during the peaceful times of course. Also, Wonderland would rock too I guess.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[Plum]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#5

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:17pm

Hmm...if Earthsea let women be mages, that would be fun. Having a daemon in the world of His Dark Materials would be cool, too.

[OneBlazeOfGlory]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#6

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:20pm

I think Hogwarts would be cool. At least it would be more eventuful than where I am now...

It would also be fun to live in a Dr. Seuss book. Not sure which one in particular though.

Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason

[Unknown User]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#7

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:26pm

I'm afraid my choice is pretty pedestrian by comparison.

Walden, by Thoreau - because a life of quiet solitude in communion with nature would suit me much better in the long run. Although, at this point, my solitude would be shared with my life partner.

Although, re-reading your question, I guess Walden doesn't qualify as a work of fiction. So, I'll pick Jonathan Livingston Seagull, so I could fly free the way I'd like to, and spend my time in pursuit of knowledge and shared wisdom. Updated On: 12/21/04 at 08:26 PM

[papalovesmambo]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#8

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:28pm

yeah i wanted to put that in there, d, because there are so many non-fiction works that i'd love to inhabit. this way we can go back later and re-visit the idea later with non-fiction.

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

[My Fair Lady]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#9

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:30pm

Hogwarts, easily. It seems like so much fun!

[Fiji]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#10

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:39pm

Hmm... I'd love to live on the Discworld, from Terry Pratchett's books. It would be so much fun!

[Plum]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#11

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:40pm

If you're going with non-fiction, you might as well start a thread about which historical era/place you'd like to live in.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

re: picking your reality (not your nose)#12

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:44pm

Fiji...Discworld gets a close second. Hah...it would be pretty entertaining.

Akiva