Walt
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Interests | Gardening, Cooking, classic film, classic novels, and, reluctantly, so called "gender issues." |
| Favorite movies | The Four Feathers (1939 version), Vertigo, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original 50's version), High Sierra, The Big Country, and many others. |
| Favorite music | Mainly opera, especially Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Phillip Glass. Also American standards (Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, etc.). |
| Favorite books | A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, both by V.S. Naipaul, On the Beach, Round the Bend, Pastoral, and others by Nevil Shute, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, as well as nineteenth century classics by Trollope, Dickens, Balzac, etc. |