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Nigel Dawe

MANY times, over the course of my days I’ve pondered the guestlist of a hypothetical party I’d love to throw, one in which I could invite anyone from all of history (after being, of course granted this wish by a genie). I’ve even gone as far as giving thought to the actual seating arrangements.

The sheer possibilities are endless, and depending on whether you’d prefer the flare of a room full of smarty pant types, or just one packed by those of a tranquil disposition: what an experience it’d be! I’d personally go for a mix of very different, but no less impressive figures, some known, and some not so known.

Not necessarily in any order, Shakespeare would get my nod, having once said, “I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table…

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Next in line would be his Spanish equivalent, Cervantes (a man who died the very day after Shakespeare himself, in 1616). Wonderfully, the creator of Don Quixote once noted, “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd… Every person is the child of their own works.”

Hot on their heels I’d have someone like the metaphysical poet Rumi, “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do…When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.” I’d then seat Kahlil Gibran, “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” As well as Rainer Maria Rilke, “I