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Pollock is basically a less talented Tracy Emin. Cezanne all the way.

Tawny or snowy owl?

flip of the coin for snowy.

same q.

Tawny owl, no particular reason why.

FIFA World Cup or the summer Olympic Games?

i'd let my neighbor decide.

same q.

Summer Olympics if I absolutely had to choose, but neither really.

Table Tennis or Snooker?

snooker

Read Dickens or read Homer?

Homer, if my Greek were still up to scratch. Dickens always irritated me with his use of daft names for some of his characters.

Jack London or Joseph Conrad?

I don't love Conrad but haven't read London. I have Heart of Darkness here so I guess I'll pick that.


PB Shelley or Emily Dickinson?

Emily Dickinson.

Lord Byron, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

(Isabella): I'll go for Shelley, because the only work of his I've read is Ozymandias, and that's quite memorable. A British Trotskyist revolutionary called Paul Foot used to go on about him, and I was always meaning to read more of his works, but never got round to it. Haven't read anything by E Dickinson.

(kraftiekortie): Byron, don't ask me why.

Syrup or Honey?

Shelley and Byron, although I like Coleridge and Dickinson.

I just bought a hardcover Dickinson last week.

Syrup. I don't like honey.


Kafka or Ginsberg?

Kafka. I can't stand Ginsberg. He was an a**hole when I met him in person once. And Ginsberg's poetry is merely an imitation of Walt Whitman.

Kafka, or Wallace Stevens (both had similar occupations)

I'll go for Kafka, because you can pick up a few street cred points for describing various things as 'Kafkaesque'. A member of the Physics department at the school I worked in was a dead ringer for Ginsberg.

Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World?

I don't know Kafka very well. Some of Stevens' work is nice. I remember one called The Snow Man.

I've read 1984 and BNW. I actually taught BNW one semester.

Neither are my cup of tea but I guess Huxley.


Penguin Classics, or Oxford World Editions?

Penguins were always fine for me, don't know the other one.

TS Eliot or Ezra Pound?

Eliot

Write a dissertation on Paradise Lost, or Beowulf?