Allectus
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Aesthete |
| Introduction | Allectus likes to ask awkward questions, both of himself and of others. In this endeavour he is motivated only by intellectual curiosity, and a not wholly disinterested desire to improve the state of his fellow human beings. |
| Interests | English vernacular architecture, Gothic architecture, Palladio, Baroque architecture, Georgian architecture, the Gothic Revival, political philosophy, moral philosophy, psychology of the emotions, psychology of motives, ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 1890s, the Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the Augustan Age, the Enlightenment, the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, mythology, the ghost story, the weird tale, the supernatural |
| Favorite Movies | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Favorite Music | Renaissance and Baroque, Hildegard of Bingen, Dunstable, Dufay, Josquin, Lassus, Palestrina, Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Dowland, Monteverdi, Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Mozart, Emma Kirkby, ISB, Sandy Denny |
| Favorite Books | Chaucer, Pico della Mirandola, Hooker (Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity), Shakespeare, King James Bible, Bacon, Donne, Locke, Swift, Addison, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Laurence Sterne, Montesquieu, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, The Letters of Junius, Goethe, Novalis, William Blake, Coleridge, Schopenhauer, Heine, Thackeray, Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, J S Mill, Matthew Arnold, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ruskin, William Morris, Walter Pater, Proust, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, M R James, Vernon Lee, Arthur Machen, W B Yeats, Irving Babbitt, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Walter de la Mare, A E Coppard, Osbert Sitwell, Wyndham Lewis, T S Eliot, C S Lewis (as a Medievalist), Cyril Connolly, Harold Acton, Robert Byron, James Lees-Milne, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Russell Kirk, Robert Aickman, Sarban, William Empson, John Harvey (the Medievalist), Isaiah Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, H L A Hart, Frances Yates, Mary Midgley, Bernard Williams, Roger Scruton |