H. Philip Aster
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Litterateur |
| Interests | Chess, water sports, kayaking, language, literature, the arts generally, evolutionary biology, astronomy, physics, astrobiology, cryptography, religions, playing piano/guitar, heavily hopped beer, summer nights, summer nights with heavily hopped beer, writing, creating, figuring things out |
| Favorite movies | Horowitz in Moscow, The English Patient, The Life of Birds, Life of Brian, True Romance, Murder by Death, The Black Hole, Impromptu, movies about gladiators |
| Favorite music | All Chopin, late-period Beethoven (see e.g. Op. 109 Mvmts. 1-4), Schubert, Liszt, Led Zep, Dan Bern, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Mason Jennings, Doc Watson, &c. &c. &c. |
| Favorite books | West With the Night, You Can't Go Home Again, The American Language, Cryptonomicon, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Demon-Haunted World, A History of God, Infinite Jest, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heart of Darkness, Edgar Allan Poe collections, &c. |