Say 33

Say 33 - you in 33 questions

1. Your main trait: enthusiastic creativity
2. The quality you like best in a man: a sensitive cleverness
3. The quality you like best in a woman: complicity
4. Your main flaw: primordial chaos
5. Last time you cried: Feb 20, would have been my best friend’s 30th birthday
6. Ideal job: aesthete  
7. Scent of a place: suntan cream at the seaside in the empty streets at 2 p.m.
8. Beloved movie: To kill a mockingbird
9. Book on the nightstand: The Forsyte saga; Declaration of Independence: A Global History
10. First and best kiss: first 13, best 26
11. You couldn’t do without: understanding
12. How you would like to die: under a pergola in a vineyard, chatting with my friends, totally relaxed as in The Brotherhood of the Grape; or watching the ocean from the shore
13. Song you sing in the shower: I don’t sing in the shower, I only sing in the car, alone: last time I tried both Un bel dì vedremo from Madame Butterfly and Absolute beginners (Bowie), LMAO. I failed.
14. Your deadly sin:  gluttony
15. Your not-so-deadly sin: I correct grammar and give names to inanimated things
16. Your motto: You must be wide and diverse - but fixed, like the sea (Montale)
17. Ideal first date: a walk in Venice, getting lost in the alleys, then a glass of wine by the sea
18. Favorite present: my guitar and a letter
19. In the train: if I’m not looking out of the window, I usually try to read books’ titles when someone’s reading
20. Something you’d change in your body: my eyes, I’m shortsighted and I’m tired of contact lenses
21. Your addiction: literature
22. Now on your left: piles of books and cds
23. Now on your right: a cup of tea on the nightstand
24. Now in front of you: my notebook
25. Now behind you: on the wall, vintage cameras and pop-style photos
26. Names for your children: Sebastiano, Sofia, Linda
27. 3 things in your purse: 1 a book; 2 earpieces; 3 hand cream
28. 3 places that fascinate you: 1 woods; 2 local street markets; 3 ocean
29. 3 people you’d like to meet: 1 Stéphane Lambiel; 2 Bob Dylan; 3 Mr. Darcy
30. 3 traits you hate on people: 1 ostentation; 2 intrusiveness; 3 lack of openness
31. Values inherited from your parents: father: integrity; mother: curiosity; brother (he’s 13y older than me, so a kind of parent himself): high spirit
32. In your past life you were: a cat
33. In your future life you’ll be: a figure skater