John Horlivy
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Rusticating |
| Location | Nevada City, California, United States |
| Interests | Classical Rhetoric esp. Figures of Speech, Word study, Writing, Drawing, Cartooning, Rock Balancing, Site-Specific Sculpture, Reading esp. NYTimes - New Yorker - New Scientist, Essays, Poetry. Hollywood Movies of the 1930s and '40s. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, The Thin Man, Duck Soup, Annie Hall, Shakespeare In Love, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Spirited Away, Shopgirl, Smoke. |
| Favorite music | Songs by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Sandy Denny, Harry Nilsson, Steely Dan. |
| Favorite books | Tao Te Ching, The Odyssey (Fagles Tr.), As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV Part One, Dictionary of Modern American Usage (Garner), The Art of the Personal Essay (Lopate), The Grand Panjandrum (Hook), Slang and Euphemism (Spears), The Vulgar Tongue (Grose), Xenia (Barks), Oh the places You'll Go! (Seuss), Schott's Original Miscellany (Schott). |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
Oops. It's still alive! Gulp. I feel gill-ty.