It’s time for another round of 10 (this time 11) questions! Forum members volunteer to be asked 10 11 random questions by other members of the forum, and each week we post their answers here on the blog. This weeks victim volunteer is Susana Imaginário.
Susana how can people find more information about you and your work?
Link to buy books:
http://mybook.to/Timelessness
Website:
https://susanaimaginario.com/
Link for the upcoming Kickstarter campaign
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanaimaginario/timelessness-special-edition-omnibus-bonus-content
Let’s get started!
1.) Pole dancers maximise their strength to weight ratio. Who do you think you could beat in the forums on a chin up competition?
Ten years ago I’d probably have beaten everyone in the forums. These days I can hardly get my arse off the ground, so maybe just the girls? (no offense girls, chin-ups are hard for women) Okay, so I just did a quick check and managed 7. Maybe I could have gone up to 10 with a bit of cheating and bad form. So sad…
2.) A movie you love that more people should watch and why?
Cloud Atlas. It’s perfect. The story, the editing, the way they used the same actors. Brilliant. I’d only change two words in the entire script. Most people don’t get it, though. It’s not that they don’t like it (and most don’t) but they really don’t get it. They don’t even have the patience for it. It speaks volumes to me.
3.) If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?
I’d love to be able to teleport. Just will myself to a different place. No travel, no airports, no wasted time on traffic or endless queues… Failing that, eternal youth (regeneration) and super strength wouldn’t go amiss. Although I’m past the ideal age for immortality and have no more use for extra strength outside chin-up competitions with forum members.
4.) If you could time travel to any point in history, where would you go and what would you do?
Azores 10000BCE to check out if Atlantis was really there. If not… I’d get to visit my ancestral land before my ancestors.
5.) In a world where authors write the future, which author’s books would you most dread reading?
It would be interesting to read what George Orwell would write about our future. Then again, maybe he already did.
6.) What’s a book you’ve had on your shelf or TBR for > 10 years (if there is one) and why haven’t you read it yet ?
Ulysses by James Joyce. It’s been on my TBR for almost 20 years. It daunts me. It’s the sort of book I’m pretty sure I need to read in a group otherwise I’ll DNF. As it happens, I recently joined a reading group dedicated to it. Wish me luck.
7.) Would you rather have skin that changes colour based on your emotions or tattoos appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday?
Skin that changes colour based on emotions. I don’t hide my emotions anyway, and I already have plenty tattoos.
8.) What single tale from any mythology is your favorite?
Eros and Psyche, of course. (Or Cupid and Psyche as it is in Metamorphoses) Not because of the love story itself but all that it entailed. The trials and their implications alone are worth semesters of psychological and philosophical studies. There’s so much symbolism, metaphor, layers and layers of meanings. It’s genius.
9.) What myth is your favorite and why?
Theseus and the Minotaur. I always felt the story was a bit biased or one-sided. I’ve been wanting to (re)tell it properly for years and I finally did it. Asterius is out and it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. Go read it.
10.) Explain Slipstream in 5 words.
Magic Realism for Anglo-Saxons.
11.) What’s a personal experience that informs your writing?
From breathing to writing itself, every experience counts.
