You will spend the rest of your life alone on a desert island with a marvelous mansion/museum, chapel and swimming pool. Assuming survival needs are plentiful, what else do you pack for your exile? (What's in your library?)
I would want to have all the classics (books, music scores and recordings) that I haven't read or heard before. I don't know any foreign languages, but it would be nice to have some books in other languages, with reference materials so I could learn to understand them.
I'd probably also enjoy some puzzles and games, and some non-fiction books on science and nature, especially pertaining to the nature on the island.
I don't know. I guess the idea is that you're choosing things to console you in your solitude, but a person in that situation — alone on an island for life — might well be inconsolable. And things like books, which remind you of a world of people and social interactions and love and all the things you can't share in, might just make you feel worse.
Maybe some dogs — unfixed male and female — to provide you with puppy companionship for life. Are those allowed, if they fit in your suitcase?
Dogs, for sure. I agree, I would be inconsolable. I don't think I could really live in solitude like that, not to mention surviving on roots and berries.
Thanks for indulging my silly question. I figure if we read speculative fiction, we might as well speculate. I guess I'd part with my Agatha Christie collection. I mean, if we're talking rest of our lives, I think I'd need some new stock.
I would want to have all the classics (books, music scores and recordings) that I haven't read or heard before. I don't know any foreign languages, but it would be nice to have some books in other languages, with reference materials so I could learn to understand them.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably also enjoy some puzzles and games, and some non-fiction books on science and nature, especially pertaining to the nature on the island.
Shakespeare and sunblock?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I guess the idea is that you're choosing things to console you in your solitude, but a person in that situation — alone on an island for life — might well be inconsolable. And things like books, which remind you of a world of people and social interactions and love and all the things you can't share in, might just make you feel worse.
Maybe some dogs — unfixed male and female — to provide you with puppy companionship for life. Are those allowed, if they fit in your suitcase?
Dogs, for sure. I agree, I would be inconsolable. I don't think I could really live in solitude like that, not to mention surviving on roots and berries.
ReplyDeleteThanks for indulging my silly question. I figure if we read speculative fiction, we might as well speculate. I guess I'd part with my Agatha Christie collection. I mean, if we're talking rest of our lives, I think I'd need some new stock.
ReplyDeleteKC, I think dogs would solve everything.