Arundahti Roy

[Jimbean]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy


I am guessing IEE.

Any diverging opinions?

[Kim]

Arundhati Roy

I think I have a pretty good idea of what type she is, but curious to hear what you think.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

[Saberstorm]

Kind of obviously serious. I would guess some sort of .... gamma ... LIE?? If not I dunno, an EII. I never read her books.

[Olly From Wally World]

Only looked at the pics. The impression I got was EII.

[mu4]

EII

[silke]

SEI judging from the pics

[Beautiful sky]

SEI confirm and final

[SyrupDeGem]

First impression is ILI. Will come back to watch vid later.

[Kim]

She VIs EII, but her writing might suggest SEI....

[xerx]

don't know her type, but a great person all around.

[Kim]

don't know her type, but a great person all around.

Yes, she is. And a great writer.

[mu4]

She is probably a irrational and I think she'a actually an extrovert, so IEE.

The quotes selected aren't really that great, because IMO it's not representative.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

She could easily say this in a internalized fashion, but she chooses to externalize it and make more objective a very personal emotional state. And maybe the quote indicates passionate communication style.

[noid]

EII

[Beautiful sky]

SEI are like Bell in Beauty in the Beast, bookish and smart

Most of my favorite authors are SEI

[Kim]

She is probably a irrational and I think she'a actually an extrovert, so IEE.

The quotes selected aren't really that great, because IMO it's not representative.



She could easily say this in a internalized fashion, but she chooses to externalize it and make more objective a very personal emotional state. And maybe the quote indicates passionate communication style.

As much as I would love to be her identical, I do not see an IEE write a novel in the way she did with The God of Small Things... She has lots of passages like this one (vivd and detailed descriptions of environment, people, etc.):

“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.”

But maybe this really is no indicator of type. But she does strike me as an introvert, generally. I do doubt IEE.

[mu4]

As much as I would love to be her identical, I do not see an IEE write a novel in the way she did with The God of Small Things... She has lots of passages like this one (vivd and detailed descriptions of environment, people, etc.):

But maybe this really is no indicator of type. But she does strike me as an introvert, generally. I do doubt IEE.

The passage isn't really introverted, it's very sensory however. I think her political writings is far more indicative of her type than this book, because she's not really a huge fiction writer. She's never written a 2nd novel.

She's a conflict and controversy seeking individual.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/200...11.afghanistan

Something like this imo is more indicative of her and imo it's not very introverted.

[ashlesha]

irrelevant, but i like looking at the pictures...she has gorgeous features.
(the quotes fall kind of flat for me)

[Iris]

I think she VIs EII. Especially so in the 3rd pic with the short haircut. I see Se polr in that pic as opposed to Se role or ignoring. To me, one of the unmistakeable differences between EII and SEI is the fragility of Se polr. Her quotes speak of anger and outrage, but her demeanor is restrained and she doesn't give way to her passon in the interview. That is a characteristic of the EIIs that I know, they feel things very deeply, but strong emotion is not the tool of choice in their communication.