If you could have a conversation with anyone..

[Belacqua]

This could be someone from the past or present.. Who would it be?

For research purposes: the usual big names, like Socrates and Jesus

For pleasure:

~ a long foreign trip with Gérard de Nerval

~ a week of debauchery with Pietro Aretino

~ summer vacation with Matisse at his villa on the Riviera