Wirkman Virkkala
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | editorial consultant |
| Location | WA, United States |
| Introduction | Caucasoid male with red beard. Well, graying beard. Would rather read obscure novelists of the past than novels approved by literary academics. Thinks for himself. Gives hints to readers. Podcasts at LocoFoco.net. |
| Interests | Philosophy, history, economics, sociology & social psychology, literature, fine art music and film. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, The General, North by Northwest, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Days of Heaven, Ran, Trois couleurs: Rouge, The Devils, Magnolia |
| Favorite music | Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Haydn's Trauer Symphony, Boccherini's quintets for guitar and strings, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, Beethoven's sonatas, symphonies, etc., Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Rite of Spring, Apollo, Symphonies of wind instruments, etc., Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2, Martinu's Fifth and Sixthy symphonies, and Sinfonietta La Jolla, Hovhaness's Fra Angelico, Ginastera's Concerto per corde, John Adams's Grand Pianola Music and much else, George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, Leon Kirchner's String Quartet No. 2, Stefan Wolpe's String Quartet, Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony and Piano Trio, Alexander Tcherepnin's First and Fourth symphonies, Hindemith's symphonies and the grand Nobilisime visiones, the latest music I've improvised on the piano |
| Favorite books | James Branch Cabell's "The Cream of the Jest", Herbert Spencer's "Principles of Ethics", George Santayana's "Realms of Being", Iris Murdoch's "An Accidental Man", Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Joel Feinberg's "Social Philosophy", Robert Nozick's "Anarchy State and Utopia", Carl Menger's "Principles of Economics", F. Marion Crawford's "Saracinesca" trilogy, J.L. Mackie's "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong", C. L. Stevenson's "The Ethics of Language", Arnold Bennett's "Riceyman Steps", Aldous Huxley's "Point/Counterpoint" |