Five by Nine

Five questions set me by [info] sovay

1.    Which character do you like best that you would never want to meet?

Well, Stalin in Collaborators is a magnificent comic monster, and I wouldn’t want to be on his planet.  But “best” is difficult.  I would avoid all villains, on the whole, however juicy.  I have no desire to meet with several of my own gods either, and I frisk with glee when I’m writing them.

2. What music can you no longer listen to?

Switched-On Bach.

(You may also answer this question in the converse: what do you listen to now that you never thought you would?)

I’ve pretty much stayed folk-Baroque-looney tunes with timid excursions.

3. If you could ask any ghost of your family for a single story, what would it be?

My mother’s father, who died just after I was born, came from Russia to London around 1900.  (My mother said he would dance like Stanley Holloway when he felt joyful, pulling up his trouser cuffs and stepping out dapperly.)  I would love to ask him what the East End was like before the Great War, and how he learned his trade there as a goldsmith.

4. What book (by another author) would you rewrite?

I don’t rewrite them.  I sleave them out into strands and reweave them.

5. What artistic talent do you wish you had and what would you trade to get it?

I’ve wanted to be able to sing like a Waterson since forever; but having just returned from Florence, I’ve been wishing I could paint like Botticelli.

Art is work, if only you have the gift.  With another few lives and about a hundred years’ apprenticeship, I could probably hang something in the corner of a provincial museum.  That’s where the goldsmith’s genes come in.

What would I would trade for it?  Not my writing.

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