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Mariusz

I developed a series of innocuous looking quiz-like questions I use on new people around me to probe them for any potential commonalities. One of them is:

If you had means, and will to swap places with someone. All conditions for it to happen met.

What is your favourite character from books you would like to be? And why?

My is R. Daneel Olivaw, robot from Asimov's Fundation series. He is the true ruler of mankind, immortal, nobody knows he exists, so he is safe from people. Those, who suspect someone like him might exist, are clueless about where he might live.

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  • I feel it's important to encourage myself in pursuit of understanding others. It's too easy to do that with immediately sympathetic characters (Margaret in Sarah Waters' novel 'Affinity', for instance), so I try to understand more difficult cases. However, as an autist, I do wonder if my understanding of certain villainous characters is original or simply flawed (e.g. Jennet, the villain of Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black', is not to me merely outright evil, for all her terrible vengeance - *her* suffering during her lifetime apparently counts for little or nothing).

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  • I feel it's important to encourage myself in pursuit of understanding others. It's too easy to do that with immediately sympathetic characters (Margaret in Sarah Waters' novel 'Affinity', for instance), so I try to understand more difficult cases. However, as an autist, I do wonder if my understanding of certain villainous characters is original or simply flawed (e.g. Jennet, the villain of Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black', is not to me merely outright evil, for all her terrible vengeance - *her* suffering during her lifetime apparently counts for little or nothing).

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