Trenchant Maiden
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Long Island City, New York, United States |
| Interests | abstract thought, anarchism, art, astronomy, astrophysics, body art, chaos, chemistry, coffee, cognition, dancing, freedom, gardening, goldsmithing, knitting, language, life, mechanics, motorcycles, music, nature, neuropsychology, neuroscience, new york city, painting, photography, physics, plants, poetry, politics, quiet places, ranting, reading, running, school, sculpture, silversmithing, string theory, tea, teaching, the human mind, time, travel, words, writing |
| Favorite movies | Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Chocolat, 8 1/2, The Breakfast Club (after all these years, I still love that movie), Jane Eyre, Arsenic and Old Lace, and there are more that I love but can't think of right now (is it that obvious that I'm not such a big movie watcher?) |
| Favorite music | rock, pop, reggae, classical, others |
| Favorite books | These are by no means in order of preference: Metamorphoses -- Ovid (the Kafka one isn't bad either though) The Divine Comedy -- Dante Alighieri Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Freidrich Neitzsche Cities of the Interior -- Anais Nin The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (his short stories and essays are phenomenal) Poetry of e.e. cummings La Questione Meridionale -- Antonio Gramsci Phantoms in the Brain -- VS Ramachandran Decamerone -- Giovanni Boccaccio The Poetry of Silvia Plath Poetry of Rumi Candide -- Voltaire Poetry of Charles Bukowski On the Road -- Jack Kerouac Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore -- Italo Calvino The Dictionary (in any language) |