Maryanne Khan
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Canberra, ACT, Australia |
| Introduction | I have lived all over the world and realise that differences are to be savoured, not created as a means of defining exclusion. Inclusion is the secret to the future cos we're all In It. |
| Interests | Writing, obviously, propensity towards teaching, languages, reading, art, design, music, architecture. |
| Favorite movies | Crash, the Big Lebowski, The Karate Kid (I challenge you to not wish you had had a Mister Miyagi when you were what - 14?) Star Wars 1. Indiana Jones 1 (jeez they couldn't deliver with the 2s and 3s), A Heart in Winter (French), Tous Les Matins du Monde (ditto),Platoon, Apocalypse Now (wow!), Ran (Japanese King Lear) and so on |
| Favorite music | classical western, Hindustani Classical, Urdu Ghazals, Ghulam Ali in particular and Salamat Ali Khan and sons, Ravel, St Saens,Arvo Part, Bach solo cello suites, one particular damn Schubert Lieder with a rippling piano accompaniment, goes dah dah-de dah- dah dah de dah, the Schubert Quintet that has to be the most sublime thing ever written, Peter Sculthorpe's 'Maninyas', Phillip Glass, Marin Marais and the other viola da gamba pieces of Tobias Hume. |
| Favorite books | Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Dombey&Son, Bleak House, The Boat, bloody Philadelphia which I loved/hated, Roget's Thesaurus, The God of Small Things, Midnight's Children, La Divina Commedia (in Italian), A.A. Milne. |
You laughed so hard you can't catch your breath. Stick out your tongue and show us what's funny:
I laughed so hard I couldn't catch my breath. Stick out my tongue and show you what's funny. Oh god, we are such mere things and the more we know expands ever more into the vastness of what there is to know and that we don't.