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I can't wear contacts. My "eye reflexes" prevent me from wearing them. Glasses can be a pain in the butt, though.


Same question.

Glasses.

Do you prefer to write on plain or lined paper?

Plain paper, definitely.

I tend to write too small on "lined" paper.

Do you prefer soft cover----or hard cover---books?

Hard cover

Same q

Soft cover in a sense b/c it lends itself to being less likely to be damaged if I mean to take one in a satchel or such.

Who would you pick to rap battle on the show 'Drop the mic'?.

I don't listen to hip-hop as much as I used to, so I don't have an answer for you.

Same question.

I won't even deign to answer that question.

Do you prefer mineral or tap water?

No preference.

Same question.

Mineral water.

Port or sherry?

I like "Sherry" by the Four Seasons. So: Sherry.

I don't drink, by the way.


The Greeks, or the Trojans?

From how the two sides are portrayed in Homer, I guess the Greeks.

Who's your favourite Russian composer?

Tchaikovsky

Are you a fan of Chopin?

I think he's a bit lightweight, but I suppose that makes him good in his own way - he's a good composer to listen to when one doesn't want anything too taxing. I've never really liked any Tchaikovsky save his fourth symphony and one of his piano concertos. He's the exception to the rule of Russian composers in being, in the true sense, a romantic (small R) composer, whereas the thing that draws me to Russian music its brooding, dark, cerebral and intellectual qualities.

My favourite Russian composer, as you'll have perhaps guessed by now, is Dmitri Shostakovich. His tenth symphony, almost never played in the concert hall, is the most stirring and redemptive piece of music ever written. People always talk about the seventh (Leningrad), fifth and ninth, but if you ever listen to a Shostakovich symphony, please make it the tenth. I still can't get past the first movement without crying.



This symphony has everything: tension, longing, brooding, dissonance and, ultimately, redemption of the best sort. I hope someone will listen to it and understand what I mean.

Do you like Prokofiev?

I don't really know who he is?

What is your favourite type of tophography?

typo on the topography, or more types of typography?
why does english (w) "topography" exclude maps, the normal maps currently used?
oh now i have to check all languages , great, catalan is nearly as fuzzy as english, ah that's a copy of french
logic probably, i know the french(wiki) is now in authority's hands --townhalls & libraries
no thanks, for the donations that were obsessevely begged for

smart sentences with that; "The word "typography" in English comes from the Greek roots "
so (you're saying?) ... in other languages it comes from something else?

and i still don't know when all the random capitals were put in the english or american typography, do you write like that too, or only type that way ?

parallel universes probably.....

tofography needs a doctor