... okay, actually, I don't know what to ask. But I want to know the answer, as I'm sure it's... interesting.

500-character response: If you had the opportunity to bring any person -- past or present, fictional or nonfictional -- to a place that is

special to you (your hometown or country, a favorite location, etc), who would you bring and why? What would you share with that person?

your choices.

reading Cryptonomicon in which Alan Turing is a character.

you have to cover all that in 500 characters, or about 50 succinct words? Sounds like a job for... a Hemingway-Wannabe!

500-character ... ... that's a lot of people to add to the story ...