maribou | yes, even more questions - these from doctorpepper

1) You can spend a year in any historical era, with conversational access to any historical figures of the time (say, you'd be living as a noble woman or reporter or whatever's appropriate to the time). You can pick the era, and make sure a few of those historical figures are guaranteed. The price is that you give up a year of memory, and you don't know which year, except it'll be after age 10 and before age 30.
Do you? And which era?

No, hell no, and not in any case, at least not unless i was allowed a Very Long List of exempted memories. Away from me, blah blah blah. But it's an interesting enough question that I'll tell you which I'd pick if I didn't have the choice to refuse: 8th century, please. Preferably with an anachronistic capability for global travel, or if not then I'd appreciate being dropped in Japan or Ireland, but I'm very curious about it in general.

2) You can ask up to three fictional characters one question each. What do you ask? (They may or may not answer honestly, depending on the
character.)
Oh, gosh. This is taxing my brain cells.
What question is easy, because it would be the same for all three of them: "What matters, and why?" (Even if they've more than answered it in the fiction - most of the questions I ask are only a variation on that one, anyway, and I never get tired of hearing answers, reiterations, elaborations, etc.)
I suppose I'd most like to ask Fiver (Watership Down), Moominmamma (Tove Jannsen's children's series about Moomins), and anyone's Golem (as long as it could talk, many can't). I'd have different answers tomorrow.

3) You can only read one more book in your life -- you can re-read the ones you've already read, but only one new one, one you haven't read
yet. Which one do you pick? Hypothetical books like "the unabridged anthology of everything good" are not allowed :)
I want to read the unabridged OED (there's a 6-pages-to-a-page version, so it's all in one volume).
If that is also cheating, let me read as much Aristotle as you'll count as one book (I *think* they've collected him at least once), including as a must his Poetics.
(Oddly, I'm in no rush to read either of those things as long as I'm not under such a restriction. Also, I think that is probably one of the top 5 meanest things that could be done to me, assuming audiobooks were out too.)