My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer / Scholar
Location	Madrid, Spain
Introduction	I talk with the dead for a living. Saying it like that, I would have been burnt at the stake not so many years ago. And that does not sound so bad... I study ancient texts in the hybris-laden hope of making some sense out of today's world. When age has worn the pages, I write poetry. Philologos is shorter, but the word has gotten rather dusty.
Interests	quaint volumes of forgotten lore, cinema, shades, goetia, politics, bards, polyphony, poetry, magic, clay tablets
Favorite movies	Rowing with the Wind, Prospero's Books, The Belly of an Architect, Fellini's Satyricon, Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte, The Lion in Winter, Histoire(s) du Cinema
Favorite music	Guillaume de Machaut, Bernatz de Ventadorn,Hildegard von Bingen, Orlando di Lasso, Claudio Monteverdi, Alonso Mudarra, Henry Purcell, Loreena McKennitt, Angelo Branduardi, Michael Nyman
Favorite books	The Baal Cycle, The Story of Aqhat, Satyricon, Bellum Ciuile (Lucan's), the Commedia (mostly Inferno), Rubayyat, Ezra Pound, Konstantinos Kavafis, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Walton's Biblia Polyglota, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, the Kalevala, the Silmarillion, Don Quijote, most Quevedo, Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Tang Dynasty poetry, Michael Moorcock

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