100% agree, Remy. Adam Nathan should have a bigger following. Love that you had him here. Fantastic questions, fabulous answers. Adam, Annie Dillard makes my top writers list as well.
I mentioned Annie Dillard in a post recently. A friend from vanlife emailed to tell me about how she used to play softball with Annie and friends near Tinker Creek!! It's a small and connected world.
Thank you for including me in your Proust Questionnaire series. I am flattered, and you nudged me after years to sit down and tackle it. And thanks for the kind words and not removing the thirty-seven links to my work that I snuck into my answers. 🙏
Do not watch Hitchcock’s Final Escape. I hid behind a sofa watching it as a ten year old and have never been the same. Also, I blink a lot on film too.
You're a blinker, too! If I need to quickly access my self-loathing I watch myself on film.
I have not seen Final Escape, although I'm pretty sure I don't want to now.
However... freshman year in high school there was a book, I think it was called Buried Alive about some bad guys that kidnapped a girl and put her in a coffin and buried her and piped in air and left her food in the coffin. There was a small fan to keep the air circulating. I have no idea why the school would ever think having that sick book was a good idea. It literally terrifies me still if I let it. I have terrible claustrophobia to the point that I had to pull myself back a bit when I wrote my response above. I wonder if intense vertigo has the same level of fear. Who could I possibly ask? 😀
Great, now I have to delete the word “just” from every one of my stories.
Haha
Brilliant. Now I have another publication I must subscribe to. Well done.
Cheers!
I can relate to much of this. And don’t get me started on Proustian rushes!
100% agree, Remy. Adam Nathan should have a bigger following. Love that you had him here. Fantastic questions, fabulous answers. Adam, Annie Dillard makes my top writers list as well.
Thanks to you both for this fun post!
Thanks Holly!
Thanks, Holly. When I read The Living it almost blew my mind the writing was so amazing. Command.
I mentioned Annie Dillard in a post recently. A friend from vanlife emailed to tell me about how she used to play softball with Annie and friends near Tinker Creek!! It's a small and connected world.
Indeed. It’s hard to get my mind around her playing softball. For me she’s writing in a wood cabin deep into the Olympic Peninsula. 🖊️
Heh, very enjoyable.
"Reading my own writing is a gardening exercise in weeding out the words “really” and "just."
😅 Yeeep.
"Actually" is another weed that springs up everywhere.
Actually is so enjoyable though....
Ah, that I could summon such wit in response to questions like that!
❤️
Fabuloso. "Just" loved this!
Thanks Jeanine!
I just want to say, "❤️."
Touché.
Oh!!!! Flagging this one to read when my brain is in one, attentive whole.
I'll forgive Adam the missionary position in exchange for his Yankees hatred.
Vote Adam Nathan '24!
I felt like I was actually writing the question with that one. :-)
I hate questionnaires. I refuse to fill them out unless someone threatens me with jail time.
That’s Question #32.
😝
Thank you for including me in your Proust Questionnaire series. I am flattered, and you nudged me after years to sit down and tackle it. And thanks for the kind words and not removing the thirty-seven links to my work that I snuck into my answers. 🙏
Oh I sneakily replaced all links with mine own work bwhahaha
Thank you for playing the game Adam 🙃
This was a lot of fun, although seeing the cork board lined coffin quoted outside of this questionnaire was a bit unsettling.
Really enjoyed Adam Nathan’s rye candor and just want to say thank you Remy!!
Attempted appropriate use of both weed words…cheers!
You're much welcome :)
What a joy of a read, thank you both
Do not watch Hitchcock’s Final Escape. I hid behind a sofa watching it as a ten year old and have never been the same. Also, I blink a lot on film too.
You're a blinker, too! If I need to quickly access my self-loathing I watch myself on film.
I have not seen Final Escape, although I'm pretty sure I don't want to now.
However... freshman year in high school there was a book, I think it was called Buried Alive about some bad guys that kidnapped a girl and put her in a coffin and buried her and piped in air and left her food in the coffin. There was a small fan to keep the air circulating. I have no idea why the school would ever think having that sick book was a good idea. It literally terrifies me still if I let it. I have terrible claustrophobia to the point that I had to pull myself back a bit when I wrote my response above. I wonder if intense vertigo has the same level of fear. Who could I possibly ask? 😀
Pure horror! Now put that coffin on the deck of a boat in a great tempest and yours truly understands.
Ps. Richard Gere is also blinky and it does him no favors. I join you in the self-loathing.