Paul Devlin

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation teacher/grad student/writer
Location Central Islip, New York, United States
Interests literature, music, history, painting, philosophy, golf, baseball, food, fine mens' tailoring
Favorite Movies "Bringing up Baby", "His Girl Friday", "Twentieth Century", "Look at Me", "The Proposition", "Tristram Shandy".
Favorite Music In descending order of listening time: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstong, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald
Favorite Books The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, "The Death of Virgil" by Hermann Broch, "Joseph and his Brothers" by Thomas Mann, "The Voices of Silence" by Andre Malraux, everything by Roberto Calasso, everything by Albert Murray, "The Charterhouse of Parma" and "The Red and the Black", mostly everything by Borges, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" by Mark Twain, "Benito Cereno" and "Moby Dick", The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, "A Cool Million" by Nathaniel West, almost everything by Italo Calvino, too many others to mention, mostly everything by Ernst Cassirer.

You get to ride the big roller coaster three times in a row. What will keep your dad from taking a bite out of your candy apple?

I don't get the random question thing.