Simon Darragh
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Walmer and Alonnisos, Kent and Northern Sporades |
| Introduction | Professional writer, becoming reluctant 'blogger' as no-one buys my books. Write to me direct: simondarragh@hotmail.com |
| Interests | Music, Literature, Science, Motorbikes,Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, irresponsible sex, and everything. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Five Easy Pieces, Les Enfants du Paradis, The Third Man, Once Upon a Time in the West. |
| Favorite music | Schubert String Quintet and G flat major Impromptu, Bessie Smith doing 'You bin a good ole wagon', Late Beethoven quartets,Doc Cook's 14 Doctors of Syncopation, Richard Strauss, Ry Cooder before he went all 'World Music'-ish. As Duke Ellington said,'There are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music.' |
| Favorite books | Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' in the Scott Moncrieff translation, John Donne's 'Songs and Sonnets', Dr Seuss's 'Green Eggs and Ham', Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams'. |
The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
I shan't. I shall make Isolde drink it.