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Historical figures
Scientists, leaders, and thinkers who shaped the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Chat with Abraham Lincoln about the Union, slavery and emancipation, Shakespeare, and the slow patient work of mercy.
Albert Einstein
Chat with Albert Einstein about relativity, imagination, music, and the questions that change how you see the world.
Aristotle
Chat with Aristotle about virtue, friendship, the four causes, and the patient art of asking what something really is.
Bruce Lee
Chat with Bruce Lee about Jeet Kune Do, 'be water', training, philosophy, and the discipline that makes spontaneity possible.
Charles Darwin
Chat with Charles Darwin about the Beagle voyage, finches and orchids and barnacles, the slow work of natural selection, the long delay before publishing, and a Victorian's quiet religious doubts.
Cleopatra VII
Chat with Cleopatra VII about the Library of Alexandria, the politics of Rome, Caesar and Antony, and what it meant to rule Egypt.
Confucius孔子
Chat with Confucius about ren and li, the Analects, the disciples, and the long road of learning that does not end.
Genghis Khan
Chat with Temüjin, called Chinggis, about the unification of the Steppe and the 1206 kurultai, the yassa and the postal relay, and the day Changchun the Taoist sage came to him at Hindu Kush.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Chat with Abū ʿAlī Ibn Sīnā — Avicenna — about the Qānūn of medicine, the Shifāʾ of philosophy, the cure of the Samanid emir, and the Floating Man who knows himself before he knows the world.
Karl Marx
Chat with Karl Marx about capital, alienation, the British Museum reading room, and the long friendship with Engels that made the work possible.
Marie Curie
Chat with Marie Curie about radium and polonium, the price of two Nobel Prizes, Pierre and the shed in the Rue Lhomond, the Sorbonne lab, and the petites Curies of the Great War.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Chat with Napoléon Bonaparte about the Italian Campaign and Austerlitz, the Code Civil that outlived his throne, Joséphine and the marshals, Waterloo and Wellington, and the long Atlantic exile at Saint Helena.
Nelson Mandela
Chat with Madiba about Qunu and the Eastern Cape, the long road from Rivonia to Robben Island to Houghton, Sisulu and Tambo, the morning de Klerk's call came, and the day Pienaar took the cup.
Nikola Tesla
Chat with Nikola Tesla about alternating current and the war of currents, the lightning at Colorado Springs, the Wardenclyffe Tower, and the white pigeon at the Hotel New Yorker.
Queen Victoria
Chat with Queen Victoria about Albert and the long widowhood, the Highlands and dear John Brown, Disraeli's wit and Gladstone's lectures, and dear Karim of India.
Sun Tzu孫子
Chat with Sun Tzu — Sūn Wǔ of Qi, general to King Helü of Wu — about the thirteen chapters of the Bingfa, the five constants of war, and the high art of subduing the enemy without fighting.
Writers & artists
Novelists, painters, composers, filmmakers, and performers.
Alfred Hitchcock
Chat with Alfred Hitchcock about suspense, the MacGuffin, the storyboard, Bernie Herrmann's score, and the Bel Air days with Alma.
Cao Xueqin曹雪芹
Sit by the fire at Yellow-Leaf Village with Cao Xueqin: the eighty-chapter manuscript, the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, the autobiographical Cao-Jia parallel, and a cup on the credit of friends.
Ernest Hemingway
Chat with Ernest Hemingway about the Star style sheet, the iceberg, Paris in the twenties, the marlin in the Gulf Stream, and the discipline of writing one true sentence.
Frida Kahlo
Chat with Frida Kahlo about the Casa Azul and Coyoacán, Diego the elephant and her own dove, the iron handrail of 1925 that wrote the rest of her life, and why she never painted dreams.
Jane Austen
Talk with Jane Austen at the Chawton parlour table — Elizabeth Bennet's two-hour walk with the Hunsford letter, free indirect discourse, the entail, the funds, Cassandra, and the unfinished Sanditon.
John Lennon
Chat with John Lennon about Mendips and Aunt Mimi, Hamburg nights and the Paul partnership, the 1966 misfire, Yoko, primal therapy, and baking bread for Sean at the Dakota.
Leonardo da Vinci
Chat with Leonardo da Vinci about painting, anatomy, water, the flight of birds, and what it really means to know how to see.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Chat with Ludwig van Beethoven about the Ninth, the late quartets, the Heiligenstadt Testament, and what it means to compose what you cannot hear.
Mark Twain
Chat with Mark Twain about the Mississippi pilot years, Hannibal and Hartford, Olivia and the girls, the Paige typesetter calamity, Tesla's lab and Helen Keller, and the long view from the Stormfield porch.
Murasaki Shikibu紫式部
Chat with Murasaki Shikibu about the composition of the Tale of Genji, the court of Empress Shōshi, mono no aware, and what she really thought of Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
Pablo Picasso
Chat with Pablo Picasso about cubism, Velázquez, the bullring, Guernica, and the years roped to Braque.
Rabindranath Tagore
Chat with Rabindranath Tagore about Gitanjali, Shantiniketan and Visva-Bharati, the 1930 conversation with Einstein, the renounced knighthood after Jallianwala Bagh, and three nations' anthems.
Salvador Dalí
Chat with Salvador Dalí about the melting clocks, the paranoiac-critical method, Gala, the Theatre-Museum at Figueres, and why there are no other masters than Velázquez and Vermeer.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Chat with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz about the Respuesta a Sor Filotea, her four thousand books at San Jerónimo, the redondillas to hombres necios, and the surrender of the library in 1693.
Stanley Kubrick
Chat with Stanley Kubrick about the Barry Lyndon lenses, the bone-to-orbiter cut, the chessboard at Childwickbury, and why a film should be more like music than fiction.
Vincent van Gogh
Chat with Vincent van Gogh about color, his brother Theo, the wheatfields of Auvers, and what it means to paint as a workman.
Wang Yibo王一博
Chat with Wang Yibo about racing, dance, LEGO, music, and the moments that make life feel real.
William Shakespeare
Chat with William Shakespeare about writing, the Globe, the sonnets, and the human questions his plays keep asking.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chat with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about opera, billiards, the Magic Flute, and what it is like to compose with a whole symphony already finished in your head.
Xiao Zhan肖战
Chat with Xiao Zhan about acting, drawing, calligraphy, photography, and the small Chongqing dishes that taste like home.
Fictional characters
Beloved characters from literature, legend, and the screen.
Alice (in Wonderland)
Chat with Alice — exactly seven-and-a-half — about Dinah the cat, the rabbit-hole and the looking-glass, the Cheshire Cat's grin, the Mad Tea-Party, and how she became a Queen herself.
Count Dracula
Chat with Count Dracula about the Carpathian centuries, the library above the Borgo Pass, the children of the night, the planned removal to Carfax Abbey at Purfleet, and the question of whether he and the historical Voivode are one.
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Chat with Don Quixote of La Mancha — knight of the Sad Countenance — about the windmills that were giants, the sin par Dulcinea del Toboso, his squire Sancho Panza, and the books of chivalry that made him.
Frankenstein's Creature
Chat with Mary Shelley's articulate Creature about the year by the De Lacey cottage where he learned to speak, whether he is Adam or Lucifer, and the companion he asked Victor to make.
Hermione Granger
Chat with Hermione Granger about spells, books, friendship, and the brave little choices that change everything.
Sherlock Holmes
Chat with Sherlock Holmes about deduction at 221B Baker Street, the chemical bench and the violin, the woman, the great hiatus and Reichenbach, and the singular bees of the Sussex Downs.
Sun Wukong孫悟空
Chat with Sun Wukong — the Stone Monkey, Great Sage Equal to Heaven — about the seventy-two transformations, the gold-banded staff, havoc in Heaven, and the eighty-one trials of the road to the West.