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Conversation Through the Ages
The Conversation Through the Ages
Imagine yourself sitting at the dinner table, or around the campfire, or even on a Zoom call, with, say, Viktor Frankl, Abraham Lincoln and Aristotle. Imagine Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore shows up, and maybe comic actor Jim Carrey, maybe even a Tunisian storyteller, or a contemporary feminist writer, and an 18th Century French mathematician. Below you will see a few dozen such folks scroll by your screen, as you hover over each image you will see a question for the ages which they have responded to at some point in the past. Click on the image, and you will see that we have hyperlinked several words or phrases in their response. Click on one of the hyperlinks and see who might’ve responded to that person’s idea, then keep on clicking hyperlinks as you wander amongst a fascinating crowd and eavesdrop on conversations that only could’ve happened at your bidding here among The Proctor Charlie Collective. Enjoy…
Ask the Princess Bride author about love and logic…
Ask the father of the scientific method about art…
Ask the British-Jamaican-Irish activist poet about age and negotiation…
Ask the British journalist novelist and poet about domestication…
Ask the Swiss medical doctor and lecturer about the root of poetry…
Ask the American poet and translator about our future…
Ask an Indonesian journalist and martial artist what you can do with boredom…
Ask an early 20th Century American writer about intergenerational communication…
Ask a British mystic about sanity and hallucination…
Ask an American author about your day…
Ask the father of English lexicography about the significance of the small…
Ask a British classic creator of the speculative about regret…
Ask a Greek medical doctor and novelist about moral reconstruction…
Ask an Austrian neurologist and Holocaust survivor about change…
Ask a Stanford graduate, news professional and writer about identity and change…
Ask an Irish poet and philosopher about the roots of homelessness…
Ask a Bengali Nobel Prize winner about generosity…
Ask a prolific essayist about telling the truth…
Ask the Nineteenth Century writer of Americana memoir about your dreams…
Ask a Tunisian story teller how to live and grow…
Ask the ancient Greek tragedian for a reason for suffering…
Ask the Bard of Avon about true love…
Ask the 20th Century British statesman to explain common stupidity…
Ask a twice defeated presidential candidate about the wisdom of patience…
Ask the 16th U.S. President about courage…
Ask a Chinese American author and teacher about parents…
Ask an American author, journalist and speechwriter about making assumptions…
Ask the legendary, if not mythical, Chinese philosopher about love, strength and courage…
Ask an Eighteenth Century German prodigy of classical music about silence…
Ask a Chinese/Canadian audiologist and writer about the cost of being true…
Ask a New York and Dakota poet and essayist about emptiness…
Ask a 20th Century British historian how NOT to get an answer…
Ask the 18th Century French salon hostess and woman of letters about misdiagnosing insanity…
Ask a New Mexico historian about responsibility…
Ask the early American diplomat and inventor about narcissism…
Ask a computing pioneer about leadership…
Ask a Malaysian winner of the Hopwood Novel Award about change…
Ask the father of Western thought just how he got so dang good…
Ask a British antiquarian bookseller about the value of everything…
Ask a Canadian Writer/Actor about animal husbandry…
Ask the Scottish adventure novelist about why we need to fail…
Ask an American Twentieth Century poet about money…
Ask a beloved British Sci-Fi screenwriter about trust…
Ask the only Native American to have a major city named after him about finding solitude…
Ask the late Discworld novelist about the terror of favors…
Ask a British psychiatrist and literary scholar about belief and certainty…
Ask a feminist journalist about being free and lonely…
Ask the creator of everything from Bananas to Manhattan about death…
Ask a writer of speculative fiction from India about the nature of evil…
Ask the queen of wonderful and wacky about why even you might legitimately be at least a bit of a genius…
Ask collaborators who birthed ‘The Expanse’ about taking chances…
Ask an 18th-19th Century Shawnee warrior chief about gratitude…
Ask a self educated freed slave author and orator about making progress…
Ask a Fortune 500 company executive about leadership…
Ask a legendary Japanese film director about weapons and strategy…
Ask a comic Hollywood actor why he just keeps on talking…
Ask an American journalist and curmudgeonly commentator for a common aphorism on healing…
Ask a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher about truth and love…
Ask a 19th Century American poet about seeing truth…
