Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	writer
Location	York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Introduction	Born Belfast Northern Ireland 1955. Writer of philosophical fiction. Disposition: Disobedience to the norm. Quote: "Disobedience is man's original virtue." Oscar Wilde Quote: "Every talent must unfold itself in fighting"...Nietzsche. Misquote: Truth is that which cannot be said, only shown. That said !! My word of truth is in fiction. My life, total fiction. --------------------------------------- Literary Agent: Pamela Malpas Harold Ober Associates 425 Madison Avenue NY 10017 USA
Interests	Interests: The four "Fs". The four "Fs". Football (soccer), film, fighting & philosophy. There is another "F" but it escapes me for the moment. Let's call it the in"F"able!
Favorite movies	Providence (Alain Resnais 1977). Il Conformista. The Apostle. Death in Venice. The Damned. Shane. The Searchers. The Law & Jake Wade. Billy Liar. The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep. Far From The Madding Crowd. The Go Between. Midnight Cowboy. Barry Lyndon. Red River. The Exorcist. The Night of the Demon (1958). The Night of the Hunter. The Others. Le Boucher. Monsieur Hire. The Hairdresser's Husband. Bomber and Paganini. Hard Times (Bronson - The Streetfighter). Great Expectations(Lean). David Copperfield (WC Fields) Ryan's Daughter. A Month in The Country. Jeremiah Johnson. Valdez is Coming. Once Upon a Time in America. The Thin Man. The Third Man. The Fallen Idol. Eyes Wide Shut. Laurel and Hardy (the 20 minuters). The Marx Bros. It's a Gift (W. C. Fields: that blind man in his shop just kills me). The Leopard (Il Gattopartdo) The Conversation. Conversation Piece. Casanova (Fellini). Shadowlands. Howards End. Juno and the Paycock. Le Parfum d'Yvonne. A Soldier's Story. Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The Sporting Life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. The Shout. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Odd Couple. Bringing Up Baby. Adam's Rib. The Green Man. The Lavender Hill Mob. The Ladykiller (Ealing version). Murder by Decree. Freebie and the Bean. The Stars Look Down. Way to the Stars. This Happy Breed. Dead of Night. Went the Day Well. Diary of a Chambermaid. Hombre. Being there. Pink Panther films.The Cincinnati Kid. Thomas Crown Affair (McQueen). Green for Danger. A Canterbury Tale. High Sierra. Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Castle Keep. The Charge of The Light Brigade (Tony Richardson). The Pit and the Pendulum. The Swimmer. The Servant. Accident. Victim. Scorpio. The Pawnbroker. The King of Marvin Gardens. The Producers (Mel Brooks/Zero Mostel). Pookie. Intimate Strangers. The Invitation (L' Invitation) Castle Keep. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Cook & Moore). The Unforgiven (John Huston)
Favorite music	Elgar (Elegy). Dream of Gerontius. All other Elgar. Mozart. Mahler. Bach Cello Suites. All other Bach. Joseph Haydn. Vaughan Williams, Hank Williams. Bob Dylan. Simon and Garfunkel. Johnny Cash. Gospel. Blues. Jazz. Harry James. Saint Saens. Miles davis. Mormon Tab. Choir. Chet Baker. Stan Getz. Chico Buarque. Bud Shank. Oscar peterson. June Tabor. Dave Grusin. Ennio Morricone (ESP. Once Upon a Time in the West) Soundtracks. Shadowlands (soundtrack) The Charge of the Light Brigade (John Addison)
Favorite books	The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, The Dalkey Archive, At -Swim -Two -Birds, (Flann Obrien) Ulysses. Finnegan's Wake. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. The Poor Mouth. Spinoza's Ethics. Plato's dialogues. Shakespeare. Croce's The Essence of Aesthetic. The Aspern Papers (James). Camus - The Rebel. Being and Time (Heidegger). Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. The Idea of the Holy (Rudolf Otto). The Idea of History (Collingwood) The Petticoat Dominant. Any JP Donleavy stuff. Turbulance (Chico Buarque). Puckoon (Spike Milligan). The Metaphysical Touch. The Pawnbroker & The Human Season by Edward Lewis Wallant. Dostoyevky's The Gambler. José Saramago's Blindness. Gadamer Truth & Method. The Idea of Nature, The Principles of Art - Collingwood. Creative Evolution - Henri Bergson, Robbe-Grillet, Paul Tillich.

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