Dinner for six ~ Who would you invite?

[Harry]

Vera who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain

[Florestan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain

Thanks.

[Renfield]

What a fantastic thread!

As to who I'd invite...


Gustav Mahler

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Herbert von Karajan

Plato

Søren Kierkegaard

Charles Bukowski


That would be a riot! Gustav and Ludwig know each other, anyway, and Herbert - who would be cooking - should have much to share with both, including master conductors' secrets with Gustav. Plato and Wittgenstein, too, would get along just fine, if someone could translate (and I don't only mean the language), while the former would anyway make a fantastic dinner guest (see: the Symposium).

Søren would be his charming self, and given that it's a male-only dinner, he'd be free to socialise with the rest without worry. And what a discussion he might have with Plato and Hank Bukowski, last but not least in this list (no pun intended). Of course, Hank would object to most things said around the table, but I also think he'd get along with Ludwig just fine, too.

And of course myself, with all these charming and interesting people to socialise with! I'd have a lot of questions to ask all of them, yet I would definitely greatly enjoy any discussions between them, as well. In fact, if there's a Heaven and the above are in there, I'd like to book a table and hope for the best, because that would be a dinner party worthy of transcendence!


P.S.: Isn't it technically a dinner for seven, if you invite six guests? Or do you have to count yourself within the six? If that's so, I'd be likely to remove Kierkegaard from the list; he'd anyway be likely to have at least two dozen other dinner invitations for that night, some of them including charming female participants. So he might not mind all that much...

[George]

Can we make it after the baby's born?

Why not? We've waited this long. 

[m_gigena]

Jesus of Nazareth, Vera Brittain, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Helen Hunt, Turgenev.

You better drop Helen Hunt and invite an efficient translator.

[Harry]

You better drop Helen Hunt and invite an efficient translator.

Yes thank you Manuel, maybe you would do the honours?

[m_gigena]

Yes thank you Manuel, maybe you would do the honours?

My aramaic is a but rough. I haven't spoken it for .... two thousand years. 

[val]

In order to have a very civilized and friendly dinner, would invite:

Val (obviously)

Bruckner

Brahms

Hanslick

Wagner

Hugo Wolf

[EmpNapoleon]

Homer, someone to translate for Homer, Fedor Emelianenko, Richter on the piano, Lindsey Lohan, and Jesus Christ.

[dtwilbanks]

Dave

Christopher Walken

Whitley Strieber

Jack Black

Rob Halford

Rose McGowan

[matti]

In no order of preference:

Oscar Wilde
Socrates
Kafka
Jesus
Chekhov
George Sand

No composers... well I don't want them for their conversational skills. Sand is close enough.

Myself: in this phantasy I'd be the fly on the wall.

[orbital]

Dave

Christopher Walken

Whitley Strieber

Jack Black

Rob Halford

Rose McGowan

Nice, at least it is possible... theoritically 

I'll go for 5 people alive too. Those that I admire, and would like to converse with:

The Dalai Lama  0:)
Gloria Steinem 
Bernard-Henri Levy 
Judith Butler 
Woody Allen 

[marvinbrown]

In order to have a very civilized and friendly dinner, would invite:

Val (obviously)

Bruckner

Brahms

Hanslick

Wagner

Hugo Wolf

Val, I think Wagner would have killed Hanslick well before the Hor- D'oeuvres are served, and I don't think Brahms can stop that from happening...OH God what I would give to see that!!!!

  marvin

[BachQ]

If open to anybody

Leonardo Da Vinci
Wm. Shakespeare
Johannes Brahms
Jesus Christ
Michelangelo
Me

If limited to composers

Brahms
Beethoven
Mozart
Schubert
Bach
Me

[Mark]

Lots of people want Jesus round for supper. Not sure he'd accept, given what happened after the last one ...

[Kullervo]

J.C.: "Eat this."

Me: "Mmmm. What is it?"

J.C.: "It is my body."

Me: *wretch*

[knight66]

I notice no one wants St Paul......hardly surprised at that one.

Some interesting choices, but I would have thought too many big egos would make for conflict and one biggie would mean a takeover. I should think Mr Wells the ACTOR would dominate most conversations.

I would like to have Berlioz, Julius Caesar, Stephen Fry, Jacob Bronowski and Emile Zola.

Mike

[Don]

Marilyn Monroe
Reese Witherspoon
Paris Hilton
Pamela Anderson
Anna Nicole Smith
Rita Hayworth

After dinner, there's always mud wrestling.

[BachQ]

Marilyn Monroe
Reese Witherspoon
Paris Hilton
Pamela Anderson
Anna Nicole Smith
Rita Hayworth

After dinner, there's always mud wrestling.

Don't forget your spouse ..........

[Don]

Don't forget your spouse ..........

Forget the spouse.