Last night, I dreamed that I was with a group of writerly people. We belonged to SFWA guild. There was the Writers of the Future guild, the Nebula guild, the Baen and Tor guild, etc. There was even an old one called the Spire guild for the golden age of science fiction. locke, someone known here as jcwd-something-or-other was also there, but he was walking around with his tennis shoes off, carrying them around.
Anyway, we were at a workshop, after which there was a sort of reception thing. My husband came to the reception thing. I met him outside the building before we went in.
You won't believe who showed up.
Isaac Asimov and Leo Tolstoy.
Asimov got in there pretty fast, so I missed talking to him. He is who I'd really like to have talked to.
I started speaking in my broken Russian to Tolstoy, who was charmed and seemed to want to speak to me. Unfortunately, Vladimir was a little too rough in his friendliness. He kept on slapping Tolstoy on the back, hard. (We just watched a bit of a time waster: Head of State) Tolstoy thought Vovka was actually trying to harm him, so he walked away.
And then I woke up.
[ August 15, 2003, 03:14 PM: Message edited by: Amka ]
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Cool! What was he like? I've always thought he was a bit of a nutter, myself, but in a nice way. I didn't at all blame his wife, though. He wanted to marry her and then have all those kids and THEN he decides that he wants to give away all his lands and estate and live as a serf? Hold on! That doesn't seem like it was in the original deal.
Anyway, I love Family Happiness and The Death of Ivan Ilych. Also Anna Karenina was wonderful. I wish Tolstoy would show up in one of my dreams so I could talk to him about those. I'm jealous you got to meet him, Amka!
Dostoyevsky has been in a few of my dreams but he's really sort of scary in person sometimes. I love him but he can be pretty evil, you know? So it's not terribly enlightening to talk to Fyodor Mikailovich in the dreamtime. <laughs>
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
Tolstoy was a bearded guy. His hair was a light brown and curly. He was pretty stout. He wore glasses. But because of my husband's behavior, I didn't get much past "Stradsvootya" and "Gavaryoo po Ruskii myedlena" and "Ya hochu Anna Karenina." I wanted to ask him how he wrote, what it was like for him, etc.
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