Literary Litmus Meme

I will certainly be the last one on earth to respond to this meme, but here goes:

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

I think that it would be The Iliad--first, because it was constructed to be memorized, and second, because it is so desperately beautiful.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Yes--Caddy Compson of The Sound and the Fury; she's enough to break your heart every time

The last book you bought is:

Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authencity, yesterday; published two years after his influential Sources of the Self, he argues that we achieve true individuality only through careful interactions with others, and that these interactions not only can be critical, that they must be critical.

The last book you read:

William Gibson's Neuromancer; a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the internet, and perhaps get some sense of where all of this is leading.

What are you currently reading?

Nobokov's Pale Fire ('nuf said)

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

[not The Iliad, because I will have memorized that already, but:]
The plays of Aeschylus [or if this is cheating, then the Agamemnon]
The plays of Shakespeare [or Hamlet]
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
The poems of Wallace Stevens
The Lord of the Rings