I was tagged by @thiswaycomessomethingwicked. Thank you!
Rules: answer eleven questions, tag eleven people, ask eleven new questions.
1. If you were trapped on an island for the rest of your life what are the three books you’d bring with you?
I expect I’m never trapped on an island! And, besides, I have different answers to said question, depending on the mood. But anyway, I’d probably pick Don Quixote, Zweig’s The World of Yesterday (a book that breaks my very European heart, but at the same time is an eternal reminder of why reason must always prevail) and Galdós’ Fortunata and Jacinta.
2. Pick a television show or movie that you like but want to fix & how.
I’m going to pick Casablanca and make it all about Louis Renault. Wait, it’s already all about Louis Renault and singing La Marseillaise. No. Fix. Needed! :)
3. What is your ideal house or living situation?
Not very ambitious: I just want to go back to my hometown of Madrid and live there in a more or less decent place.
4. What is your favourite place you’ve visited?
5. What is the top scandal that you follow and/or what is the one thing or person you keep tabs on?
I’m very very worried about next year’s European elections and all that surge of nationalists and extremists (see “reason must prevail” above). I’m not particularly keen of scandals.
6. Who do you occasionally facebook/internet stalk?
Opera singers and/or conductors. Several of them. I rarely dare to make a comment, though. I just want to know what they are thinking/doing now and then.
Frockcoat, but of course!
8. Who do you find most interesting - can be a historical figure, a fictional character, someone still alive etc.
You know I find Napoleon the most interesting figure to walk this earth, and bear in mind that interesting doesn’t mean I blindly idolize this person. In fact, deep inside of me I have the feeling that I wouldn’t like most of the historical figures I’ve been interested on, if I actually met them.
9. What is your favourite trope or cliche in fiction?
Probably the Tragic Hero. Must be the consecuence of being an opera lover, I don’t know.
10. What’s the weirdest/craziest/you-can’t-make-this-up thing that’s happened in your life? Can be either to you or to a friend etc.
It’s not exactly weird, but there’s a cute familiar story about my great-grandparents meeting each other when her shawl got tangled in one of the buttons of his jacket.
11. What’s your current goal, the thing you’re working towards?
Picking myself up after a very complicated Summer. Then, I’ll see.
So, as you may know, I rarely follow the rules. You are free to do this, dear followers.
