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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Student |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | The fortunes and misfortunes of a would-be writer, muddling through life and the pursuit of happiness. |
| Interests | eighteenth and nineteenth century novels (particularly fin de siécle French lit); postmodernism/hating postmodernism; French feminists; Jane Austen adaptations, Téada, Bollywood music, Bob Dylan; most poetry before 1900 but particularly early English lyrics |
| Favorite movies | "Sabrina" (the original one), "Roman Holiday", "Deskset", "Jane Eyre" (with Charlotte Gainsbourgh), "The Man Who Wasn't There", "Adam & Paul" |
| Favorite music | Deanta's "Whisper of a Secret", Solas' "Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers", Oisin Mac Diarmada, Téada, Dylan's "Bringin' It All Back Home" and "Love and Theft", Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Nick Drake, Elvis (!), oldies in general (Yay Neil Sedaka!), Johnny Cash, Appalachian folk music |
| Favorite books | "Persuasion" Jane Austen, "A Rebours", "La Bas", and "A vau l'eau" J.K. Huysmans, "Marius the Epicurean" Walter Pater, "The Art of Travel" Alain de Botton, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" David Foster Wallace, "The Islandman" Tomas O'Crohan, "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte, "Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle, "De Rerum Natura" Lucretius |
Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
A banana peel? Er . . . science is not my forte, though it interests me.