WHAT FAMOUS AUTHOR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE WITH AND HAVE SPARKLING REPORTEE'

Well there's this living published poet from Texas I'd like to have a cup of coffee and perhaps a cheeseburger with. Can't remember his nom de nickname....

Anybody? Anybody know who I'm talking about???

Kurzweil. I haven't read him, but a fellow I met in hospital work back when I was sixteen, who gave me a teddy bear that christmas, was from the kurzweil family.
That exact family, I don't know. It might be a popular name.

I do know he drew a fantastic take of me as (a broom closet sweeper?) for my year book. He moved on to disney, which if you know me, I've some family history of, but not so much by me personally until many years later. Anyway, decades later I saw an article about him in the LA Times and called him. He was all excited until he figured out I wasn't the girl who showed up after me.

Whatever.
Might be fun to talk now.

Somehow I don't think you would get to say much in a conversation with Vidal.

Ray Kurzweil author

Age of Intelligent Machines
Age of Spiritual Machines
The Singularity is Near

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

Maybe he's related to your friend.

Thomas Jefferson woud be good; James Madison.
He used to sponsor gunnery competions among the citizens of Virginia.
He gave prizes for accuracy.





David

Warning. Cliche coming.

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I admire him tremendously. I've read every word he ever wrote. Some eh. Much good. Some great. I have many questions for him.

I would also like to meet Dostoevsky. I read every word he ever wrote--in translation. I admire his work so much that I tried to learn Russian so I could read it in the orginal. I know he was a little nuts. I can deal with nuts. I'm used to it. I can relate to it. His work was so intense, so passionate, I want to see what the man was like.

Mark Twain. Loved Huckleberry Finn until Tom Sawyer showed up. Loved Letters from the Earth until the vitriole started to get to me.

Someone more current?

E. L. Doctorow. It would be nice to have coffee with someone who ain't dead, and I greatly admire his writing.

May I join you?

Depends. My friend who knows him could talk your ear off too. And I'm guessing kuvasz is no slouch with talking.

Edgar Allen Poe, O.Henry, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Ernest Hemingway

Then tomorrow;

Louisa May Alcott, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum

I'll decide on future authors, I gotta meet Sinclair Lewis for sure and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Could you explain to me how that applies to me?

thought you were a friend of Bill W. Who is the gentleman you are using as an avatar.

Someone asked me that same question years ago and I missed it then too. Sorry, I didn't catch the link -

http://able2know.org/topic/1983-1

My avatar is my great grandfather. My avatar use to be a white wolf.

He is really quite a goodlooking man.

Smith & Wilson = Bob Smith and Bill Wilson.

I am having bumper stickers made up saying:

If you are a friend of Smith&Wilson honk.

Did you follow my link?

Babs posted that years ago. Now you are confusing me, you are not a member of our club?

Look down at the 4th poster, you make the 10th post.

Found it. That was nine years ago, March 17 will be 30 years for me. The cult (as someone on a2k calls it) still works for me.

I certainly still have the philosophy - I haven't been to a meeting in years. Yes, it works for me too.