George Charles Allen
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Scholar of Ancient Philosophy, Literature, Comedy, Astronomy; Amateur Litterateur; Classical Pianist |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | "Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it," the sage of Concord once wrote. Following Emerson's implicit advice, this is simply a blog by an itinerant scholar for his interested friends, family and fellow students to follow the daily ins and outs--from things quotidian to the extraordinarily profound--of his adventures in the United Kingdom as a postgraduate student in the ancient University of Edinburgh. |
| Interests | Freethinker; Gadfly; Chess; Reading; Studying; Ancient Latin and Greek; Writing (essays, and poems that will be committed to flame before seeing the light of day); Classical Piano; Violin; Traveling; Flying; Sailing; Hiking; Rock Climbing; Archery; Judo; Chivalry; Riding on Trains; solitary ruminative walks; pursuing wisdom and truth, even though it's as futile as chasing wind. |
| Favorite Movies | Lion in Winter; Casablanca; Ghandi; Lawrence of Arabia; Fountainhead; Marx Brothers; Dr Strangelove; Twelve Angry Men; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce; Dead Poets Society; Good Will Hunting; The Good Shepherd; Airplane; Monty Python's Holy Grail; Life of Brian; Annie Hall |
| Favorite Music | Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, C.V. Alkan, Nietzsche and the Liszt includes Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff (the music of exile) |
| Favorite Books | Heraclitus; Pythagoras; Plato; Plotinus; Augustine; Boethius; Dante; Chaucer; Montaigne; Voltaire; Shakespeare; Bruno; Descartes; Cervantes; Milton; Spinoza; Swift; Hume; Johnson and Boswell; Goethe; Kierkegaard; Emerson; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; Hazlitt; Thoreau; Twain; H.L. Mencken; A.C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Wilde; Dostoyevsky; Hermann Hesse; Harold Bloom, et al., et al. ad infinitum. . . |
Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
Not if Zeno's paradox proves correct.