Create Your Own Adventure - Aislinn Langley

prompt 1: What makes a book a classic? The amount of time it's been around? The number of copies sold and people affected? Something else?

prompt 2: If you could meet any person in the world, living or dead, for an hour, who would you choose? What would you say to them? What would you ask them?

prompt 3: What kinds of stereotypes or stigmas do you think people have attached to you?

answering prompt 2: If I could meet any person, I would love to meet Victor Hugo. I don't even need to take time to sort through all the possibilities. It's Hugo or nothing. The guy's been dead for about 130 years and his writings have affected countless lives and I feel like he needs to know how much he's still affecting people to this day.
Hopefully he knew at least a little English, considering he spent a long time in the UK after he was was literally exiled from France because he was just that cool and righteous about republicanism and women's rights and education. But language barrier or no, I would be ecstatic. I'd probably start by having to emotionally pull myself together enough to form coherent words instead of getting flustered and blurting out something stupid like "HEY WE HAVE THE SAME MIDDLE NAME AND I HATED MY MIDDLE NAME UNTIL I FOUND IT WAS YOUR MIDDLE NAME BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPER COOL AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW GUYS HAD MARIE AS A MIDDLE NAME."

I'd love to tell him all about how his writings have become known and cherished world-wide. I'd love to shake his hand, look him in the eye and tell him that his books have made me a better human being. I'd love to get his thoughts on some of the endless adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Man Who Laughs.
And then the endless questions. "What do you have against giving side characters first names?" "What do you have against happy endings?" "Was that gay subtext intended?" "Do you have any idea how fabulous your iconic done-with-the-world pose is? Do you even realize you're doing it?" "Why are all of your novels so dark? I mean, the rate at which you kill off characters is rapidly approaching R. R. Martin levels." 

After all of which, he would likely give me an odd look and say something extremely profound.