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Suppose you were shipwrecked on a desert island, and you were only allowed one book and one "luxury item" (which can be anything you like, within reason).
What would those be?
David
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... is severely welshed from a particular BBC radio programme, I feel I should also include a disc (or ten).
So --
Suppose you were wrecked on a desert island. If, as your ship sank, you only had time to grab one CD, one book, and one other item, what would they be?
David
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CD - "American Beauty" by the Grateful Dead
Book - Oxford Book of Mystical Verse
Luxury - a writing case (well, if I put pen and unlimited paper someone's bound to object that that is two items ...).
And I would most like to be rescued by -
Christopher Eccleston, in the TARDIS, of course !
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Book --
The collected works of Oscar Wilde
Runners up:
H2G2 (the first four, in one edition) (Douglas Adams)
My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell) for sheer nostalgia value
CD --
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the Beatles)
(Yup, very unoriginal, I know, but I think it is the album I have played through end to end the most and not got bored with)
Luxury item --
If it's within the rules, a charming young man
Otherwise, a piano
Failing that, a typewriter
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... I'm not sure what good the typewriter would be without paper.
Perhaps the book could be printed on only one side of the paper, so I could type onto the other side.
David
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Deeej wrote:
> If it's within the rules, a charming young man
I like that one.
With some other toys. lol
But he would have to smart and easy to talk too.
So say what you want
(You know I'm wasting all my time)
You've gotta mean it when you say what you want
(You're only safe when you're alone)
And everybody's on your mind
Saying anything to get you by
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Luxury item - a short wave TX/RX and all the bits and bobs to run off the same power supply as that infernal gramophone.
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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A satelite phone so I can call for a ride home....
and the hell with the rest....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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My luxury item would be to have the same wreck that was in Swiss Family Robinson. You could manufacture anything from that wreck!
"My wife wanted a diswasher. Fortunately, on the wreck, once we dismantled the tumble dryer, we had enough components left to manufacture an aircraft. With that we flew to the mainland an dbought a dishwasher."
Ah 10 records.
1 - Metallica - S&M
2 - Harry Nilsson - Oblio and the Land of Point
3 - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ron can recommend the orchestra and conductor!
4 - Meatloaf - any good compilation CD
5 - Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
6 - The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
7 - (this one needs description I can't recall the composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torvill_and_Dean#Style_and_approach describes a Paso Doble. I wamt this composer and this music on a cd of their work). The imagery of Christopher Dean during that routine made me tremble when I saw it. It was not he, it was his body language that was tremble-worthy.
8 - ABBA. The popular songs, to lighten the tone and be fun with. ABBA goes with "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" for me. "Cocks in frocks on rocks".
9 - Copland's clarinet concerto. Anything else may be on the CD. My son was soloist in the final concert of the school year.
10 - A home made CD of my son playing other "stuff"
We'll have The Bible and Shakespeare, too. Enough paper there to wallpaper my cabin.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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OK. Let me start with my one luxury item. I would want a laptop with a solar rechargeable battery and with a hard disk with as much volume as possible. You see, with that laptop I would have all the books that I might ever want to read and all the music that I might ever want to listen to.
What would my music include?
Britten's War Requiem
Britten's opera "Billy Budd"
Bruckner's 7th symphony
Bruckner's 9th symphony (with the last movement completed by Palmer)
Elgar's Violin Concerto
Elgar's overture "In the South"
Halevy's opera "La Juive"
Any Gilbert Bécaud disc with my favourite hits
Any Beatles disc with my favourite hits
And one book? My prayerbook.
Well, you did ask!
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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One piece of music that I would definitely have to have with me would be Psalm 117 by Oliver Kentish. However, since it has not yet been issued on CD I would have to have in on hard disk. It's a beautiful piece of choral music with a haunting tenor solo.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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If a charming young man were there then it wouldn't be a desert island, would it?
Sorry Deeej.
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If you assume that the items were on the boat with you, and you could grab any of them at your option, then I see no reason one of them could not be a young man. The island can be as deserted as you wish beforehand.
Though, of course, one then does start to wonder why he could not take himself. Methinks this scenario does not work that well once you start to stretch it.
David
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Books
"An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth's (re-read),
"Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt.
Deeej's most recent book, written on his typewriter
CDs (with a solar powered cd player)
"Die Kunst der Fuge" by J.S. Bach
Schubert's 5th Symphony (remember, Deeej?)
Luxury item
I want a handsome young man too, please!
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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It was Nikolai Rimnsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol op 38 final movement, adapted for skating.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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