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It looks cool but I never wore it.

Same question (What do you think about tweed clothing?).

Not a fan.

What do you think about ripped jeans?

I have two pair of ripped and distressed skinny jeans.
They're cute if they're with the right outfit. I prefer to wear skirts or dresses though.

Do you prefer calendars with Sunday as the first day, or Monday as the first day?

I hate torn jeans - I think they're god awful, scruffy and take anybody wearing them in the street to be serving me a personal insult. I don't own a single pair of jeans and never will.

I prefer calendars with Monday as the first day of the week.

What's your favourite opera?

I knew you'd say that Prometheus. It's fun to make you freak out about clothes! (lol -- hugs).

La Bohème or The Barber of Seville

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I was reading a book by Peter Hitchens last night in which he quotes journalist Richard Littlejohn, ahead of the 1997 Tony "Tieless" Blair landslide, gloating that the only man left in Britain who still wore a tie on Saturdays was John Major. Well, I was a year old at the time, but I certainly prove an exception to the trend today. I guess I'm the only man under the age of forty or so in the country to wear a suit and tie without being required to, but I don't care. I've received nothing but positive feedback, for what it's worth.

I think there's still an appetite for traditional dress in this country, it's just that my generation, with very few exceptions, wasn't provided with the skills, growing up, to wear suits well. It really isn't a look you can just go into Primark and put on like you would any of the less noble, more fleeting fashions - it takes years of experience, research and observation to learn what a *good* suit should look like, and my generation just hasn't got that sort of dedication today, unless it's for posting inane rubbish on Facebook. I was lucky in having been brought up with the skills in question, but that probably makes me one in a thousand for someone in my age group.

As for the opera question - nothing high-brow here, but probably Mozart's Zauberflöte, which isn't an opera at all, but a Singspiel.

What's your favourite movement in the history of painting?

Brilliant stuff, Prometheus....

Anyway, probably the Pre-Raphaelite era, though I do also like a lot of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as well.

What do you think was the most interesting decade of the 20th Century?

I think the 1930s, depression - era. There was so much resilience.

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L'Entre deux guerres - either the twenties or the thirties. These are the decades that set the tone for the decay of western civilization that followed. People could still dress in the thirties, though the wing collar, cufflinks, waistcoats, bowler hats and the bow tie began to disappear. It was the sixties when the final nail appears to have been hammered into the sartorial coffin in Britain.

What artistic medium would you most like to be an expert in?

Musical theory -- I'd like to compose music.

As it stands, I don't know a single note or how to read music at all.

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I actually meant the visual arts, in which case my answer would be oil painting. Given the extended definition, I suppose I'd choose to be a virtuoso pianist. I can play the piano and violin at around grade three level, as it stands, though I haven't bothered with either for some time. I think composition would be something of a waste - there's no appetite for good music anymore. The last composer worth listening to was Shostakovich, who died in 1970 (I think). I guess I wouldn't mind being a world class conductor, either.

If you could obtain a doctoral degree in your subject of interest from any university in the world, along with the skills to match, what university would you choose?

(Isabella Linton): Maybe linguistics, though I'm not sure I know what that actually is, or even whether it counts as an 'artistic medium' (it probably doesn't....)....

(Prometheus): I don't know enough about the state of play with regard to universities in the present era, but I'd be deeply suspicious of the whole scene in this era of political correctness and identity politics, make of that whatever you will...

Do you believe in an afterlife?

St. John's, Cambridge.

Afterlife: yes, I believe in everything.

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I believe in an afterlife, almost by default (from my traditional Catholic upbringing, which I've never managed to cast off, though I may never have wanted to...). The whole idea makes me apprehensive a lot of the time.

When you were 20 years old, did you ever think you'd be 60?

I didn't think about age much, but I knew it would happen. (Hasn't happened yet, though).

I remember when I was about five years old I thought that "eleven" was a grown-up age.
I really wanted to be eleven. My vision of eleven was more like what a 30 year old is.

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No, didn't even think I'd get to 30.

Do you read online newspapers?