James
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking |
| Occupation | Philomath |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | "Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." - — Gustave Flaubert |
| Interests | Literature, Poetry, Theater, Cinema, Philosophy, classical music, opera, running, the Music of the Spheres. |
| Favorite Movies | The History Boys, Lawrence of Arabia, Educating Rita, North By Northwest, The Seventh Seal, A Man for All Seasons, Wings of Desire, Zorba the Greek, Laura, Shadow of a Doubt, Now Voyager, The Lion in Winter, Cabaret, The Philadelphia Story, Auntie Mame, Maurice, Far From Heaven, Orlando, The Barbarian Invasions, Amour, The Thin Man, The Third Man, August Rush, Mahler, Tell No One, Memento, Brief Encounter, Cyrano de Bergerac, Stone Reader, Lust for Life, The Leopard, Death in Venice, Purple Noon, The Razor's Edge, Gattaca, Ma Nuit Chez Maude, Dead Poets Society, Call Me by Your Name, Everlasting Moments |
| Favorite Music | Busoni, Webern, Chopin, Scriabin, Wagner, Bartok, Delius, Mathis der Maler, Hindemith, Rigoletto, Verdi, Mahler, The Ring Cycle, Glazunov, Debussy, Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Scheherezade, Handel, Tosca, Les Contes D'Hoffman, Der Rosenkavalier, Schumann, Liebestraum, Britten, The Goldberg Variations, Stravinsky, Diabelli Variations, Beethoven, Moses und Aron, Schoenberg |
| Favorite Books | The Man Without Qualities, In Search of Lost Time, Moby-Dick, Middlemarch, The Symposium, Jean-Christophe, A Shropshire Lad, Leaves of Grass, The Magic Mountain, David Copperfield, Auto da Fe, Walden, Crime and Punishment, The Road to Serfdom, Nicomachean Ethics, Death in Venice, The Counterfeiters, Maurice, Giovanni's Room, War and Peace, Atlas Shrugged, The Folded Leaf, Treasure Island, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-glass, Jane Eyre, Of Human Bondage, David Copperfield, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Death of Virgil, Confessions of Felix Krull, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Brothers Karamazov, The Razor's Edge, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Angels in America, Zorba the Greek, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Radetzky March, Call Me By Your Name, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Periodic Table, Suttree, The Road, Good Times/bad Times, The Plague, The Fountainhead, Wise Blood |
The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
With gusto!