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1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, your favorite kind of sandwich, or maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
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sakanagi tempted me to comment, so ...
1. Why did you become a physicist?
According to lore, I started asking "why" and "how" when I was about two-years-old and didn't stop ever since.
Seriously, it was a very early decision in my life. I wanted to learn, to understand how things functioned and worked and why the universe is as it is. You could say, I'm fatally curious about everything, and I expect to get answers that are logically sound and withstand to be tugged and prodded and pulled at, and which are discarded if they are not.
2. How did you get to like Tokyo Babylon/X?
I spotted the first tankobon in a bookstore at the railway station and fell in love with Seishiro (or better: with the richness of detail in the drawing style of Clamp's early works - and then the plot grabbed me completely).
3. If you had to spend a day with a fictional character, who would it be, and why?
Seishiro. Let's see who of us comes out alive!
4. What's your favorite book?
That's a difficult one. I have fav books by genre...
High Fantasy: C.J. Cherryh "Fortress in the Eye of Time" (is warring with her "The Dreaming Tree")
Dark Fantasy: L.K. Hamilton "A Kiss of Shadows"
Science Fiction: Ann Tonsor Zeddies "Deathgift"
Crime / Thriller: Barry Eisler "Rain Fall"
Mystery: Clamp "Tokyo Babylon"
Altered History: Naomi Novak "Drachenbrut" ("Her Majesty's Dragon" in English) (warring with Lian Hearn's "Tales of the Otori")
If put in terms of which book never to part with:
Tokyo Babylon - A Kiss of Shadows - Fortress in the Eye of Time
No chance to narrow it further!
5. How do you think the X manga ought to end?
like "36°"! (Okay, I'm biased.)
I'm not a friend of official alternate endings for a plot, some authors and directors are so fond of. It takes the causality from the events, because I remember one plotline and then get to see / read another. Clamp gave a specific ending to the tv series (which I decided to ignore), gave a different to the movie (which I ignored *completely*) and threatened yet another for the manga. That's the point where it becomes ridiculous. They should settle for a plot and stick with it. The tv serie's version was ok - though I prefer my own take (for obvious reasons *ggg*).
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
sakanagi tempted me to comment, so ...1. Why did you become a physicist?
According to lore, I started asking "why" and "how" when I was about two-years-old and didn't stop ever since.
Seriously, it was a very early decision in my life. I wanted to learn, to understand how things functioned and worked and why the universe is as it is. You could say, I'm fatally curious about everything, and I expect to get answers that are logically sound and withstand to be tugged and prodded and pulled at, and which are discarded if they are not.
2. How did you get to like Tokyo Babylon/X?
I spotted the first tankobon in a bookstore at the railway station and fell in love with Seishiro (or better: with the richness of detail in the drawing style of Clamp's early works - and then the plot grabbed me completely).
3. If you had to spend a day with a fictional character, who would it be, and why?
Seishiro. Let's see who of us comes out alive!
4. What's your favorite book?
That's a difficult one. I have fav books by genre...
High Fantasy: C.J. Cherryh "Fortress in the Eye of Time" (is warring with her "The Dreaming Tree")
Dark Fantasy: L.K. Hamilton "A Kiss of Shadows"
Science Fiction: Ann Tonsor Zeddies "Deathgift"
Crime / Thriller: Barry Eisler "Rain Fall"
Mystery: Clamp "Tokyo Babylon"
Altered History: Naomi Novak "Drachenbrut" ("Her Majesty's Dragon" in English) (warring with Lian Hearn's "Tales of the Otori")
If put in terms of which book never to part with:
Tokyo Babylon - A Kiss of Shadows - Fortress in the Eye of Time
No chance to narrow it further!
5. How do you think the X manga ought to end?
like "36°"! (Okay, I'm biased.)
I'm not a friend of official alternate endings for a plot, some authors and directors are so fond of. It takes the causality from the events, because I remember one plotline and then get to see / read another. Clamp gave a specific ending to the tv series (which I decided to ignore), gave a different to the movie (which I ignored *completely*) and threatened yet another for the manga. That's the point where it becomes ridiculous. They should settle for a plot and stick with it. The tv serie's version was ok - though I prefer my own take (for obvious reasons *ggg*).
