Adelaide

How do you define Adelaide?

What have you read about Adelaide?

Which Adelaide have you studied most, and why?

How does your life compare with that of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen?

What is your attitude towards social order?

What is your attitude towards liberty?

I hope you do not consider my questioning to be oppressive.  Most well-informed people consider my questioning to be impressive.

Ordinary members of the public are usually unsuitable for a similar mission to mine.

How suitable do you consider yourself to be, whether you are adequately acquainted with Adelaide or not?

Perhaps you have been discussing the subject of elegant egalitarianism with Adelaide. 

You may have possibly been discussing the topic of elegant egalitarianism with journalists of varying quality, with or without the approval of Adelaide.

How have you been investing in elegant egalitarianism, and where?

Inattentive persons, and otherwise disrespectful ones, often become nuisances, as I am sure Queen Adelaide and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard will agree.

If you are not yet appropriately registered as a patron and student of the International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence, perhaps you are seeking a better understanding of how to become one.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to explain how enlightenment and democracy can be combined and advanced quite easily, whether in metropolitan Adelaide or elsewhere.

You may be aware that I spend much of my time in my laboratory in the Tower of Truth, even on Mondays.  That is where I try to make improvements to the Hubrisometer.

If there is anything you consider to be unreasonable about me, what is it?

Have you adequately consulted Marie Adélaïde de France on the subject?

How much value do you place on equanimity?

How much value have you been placing on my leadership over the past ten years?

How do you usually demonstrate respect for scientific methodologies and gentle scholarship?

If you will stay for a while here in the library, that at least will reveal you have a suitable sense of priorities.

What have you been learning from Adelaide of Paris, Adelaide of Aquitaine, Adelaide of Normandy, Adelaide of Turin, Adelaide of Maurienne, Adelaide del Vasto, Adelaide of Hungary, Adelaide of Meissen, Adelaide of Holland, and Adelaide of Hesse?

What have you been learning from me?

What have you been learning from Beethoven? 

What have you been learning from Marie Adélaïde of Savoy?

Mondays are always the most hopeful day of the week for me.

I hope you will acknowledge the truth of history, and the truth of nature, and the origins of names.

I feel that most people are too selfish to respect the truth.  That is why I often experience exasperation and despair when my efforts to improve the world are treated indifferently.  Yet I try to maintain my composure as best as I can.

Much truth about the world can be discovered through biographies.

Where and when would you prefer to join or resume an ongoing tour of and from the Adelaidezone Digital Arts Quarter, possibly with one or more members of the Adelaide Adagia News Ensemble to guide you?

What will your expectations be if you are offered the chance to purchase the virtual VIP Experience?

In recent years, quite a few ordinary, non-Nilkawtian mortals have arrived in the Social Media Quadrangle in electromagnetic carriages owned by Lord Google or his cousin, the Earl of YouTube.  Perhaps you have had such a privilege.

How do you reflect upon the meaning of the word return in various contexts?

How do you reflect upon the meaning of the word visitor in various contexts?

Perhaps you know very little about social structures and social change and well-informed investing.

I have spent many years attempting to help you understand such matters.

What does the consent of the governed mean to you?

Perhaps you do not value or otherwise appreciate my questions.

Perhaps you do not value or otherwise appreciate me.

Perhaps the harmonious interplay of beauty, understanding and magnificence is not of central importance to you.

Should I come to the conclusion that you are not a good person?

It would make my life so much easier if you could be a little more co-operative.

What do you know about civil and political rights?

I have always tried to avoid being intrusive yet ascertaining the qualities of your leadership, your patronage and your philanthropy is not particularly easy.

What have you been learning through the life and voice of Fritz Wunderlich?

At least a few of your explorations of history and/or science may be associated with your ambitions, or other people's ambitions.

What have you been learning from Adélaïde d'Orléans? 

You may regard at least a few aspects of your explorations as research.

You may regard a few other aspects as little more than curiosity.

You may, indeed, have a romantic view of exploration, and of poetry and history.

Perhaps you have a romantic view of politics.

What are your views on the poetry of Friedrich von Matthisson?

What have you been learning from history about popularity?

How do you compare one place with another?

How do you compare one time with another?

How do you compare one person with another?

How do you identify healthy patterns?

How do you identify unhealthy patterns?

What do you believe equality under the law is meant to mean in practice?

What is your political philosophy at present, and how did it arise?

What is your social philosophy at present, and how did it arise? 

Perhaps you are mostly involved in spreading diseases, disruption and discord.

How does your life compare with that of Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg?

Are you more interested in exploring traditional cultures or emerging ones?

Do you often intrude into traditional ways of living?

Do you ever intrude into emerging cultural experiments?

There are many important considerations to make, every day.

Where have you been taking your curiosity, and why?

What is tradition? 

If you usually regard money as a problem, why do you do so?

If you usually regard a lack of money as a problem, why do you do so?

What have you been learning from Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge?

How have you developed a sense of community?

If you have not done so yet, why has it not occurred?

You may be aware that many people associated with the upper levels of social hierarchies combine extravagance with purportedly charitable activities.  They are obviously somewhat hypocritical.

When you have taken a physical or digital journey, how much or little did you feel welcome within various communities along the way, and what were the reasons?

Do you usually associate cities with simplicity or complexity?

Do you usually associate cottages with simplicity or complexity?

Queen Adelaide is well prepared for the future, as you may be aware.  She knows what is fictional and what is not.  But do you?

Perhaps you are investing in peacefully authentic living, even when facing a catastrophic bushfire event or two, or several.

Perhaps you are investing in enlightened philanthropy, even without a few decorative objects to sell for the purpose.

Perhaps you are seeking to support the Adelaide Adagia News Ensemble and other respectable journalists.