!Christina's 5 questions
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agk's diary 
14 March 2023 @ 01:17 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1
in bed after a long day at the "factory"
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I love to answer Christina's questions; read
others' answers. She wrote 5 new ones!

 gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/christyotwisty

1. If a potato chip, what flavor'd I be?

    I don't know much about potato chips. Salt & 
    vinegar?

2. Most unusual way I've made a friend?

    Hard to say. Met most friends in unusual circ-
    umstances. Saw Kara writing on a pad in the
    Square when I was 17 and asked for her auto-
    graph. "What are you doing in a body?" She 
    asked, shocked, when she looked up.

    Asked bugz to lay on my tools when I was doing
    something extremely illegal and the police-FBI
    joint patrols got too close. She did. We went
    on to move rice in the Haitian earthquake and
    a million other things over two decades.

    Met Etta when she let me, Alison, and Thaddeus
    stay in the abandoned house next to hers when
    we passed through town and cooked us breakfast.

3. A book wherein my sympathies for the protagonist
    shifted to the antagonist. Why?

    I admire the planet in Lem's Solaris. It's so
    singular and beautiful. In Lessing's The Good
    Terrorist it's natural to pity & lose patience
    with the protagonists, but you can't root for
    the antagonists. In film Mephisto's protagonist
    becomes abhorrent. Back to books, when the 
    demon becomes white in the tidewater in Absalom
    Absalom! by Faulkner, it's the most stunning 
    loss of sympathy for a character I've felt. I
    want him to be killed by Haitian guerillas, by
    Mississippi swamps, by anything.
    
4. To improve your Gopher phlog, what resources get
    beyond basics?

    szczezuja's gopher history is good. I honestly
    base a lot of my gopher vibe on doris 'zines
    from the '90s and 2000s. I think it's important
    to have a strong, intentional style that evokes
    and organizes what you have to say. When you 
    read nm03 or solderpunk, for example, you know
    what to expect. That adds to my anticipation
    and pleasure as a reader.

5. Entree I prepare so well at home I don't order
    it at a restaurant?

    Curry chickpeas over rice, I guess.