patience and the prodigal

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Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, artist, general free spirit!
Location Ballymahon, Longford, Ireland
Introduction I'm the Prodigal. Anna Maria has me convinced that I'm fascinated with myself but I was never a fan of Narcissus. I live patiently with Patience and our new puppy, Jap. We are partial to pints of Arthur Guinness's porter, good food, a clean galley and serious craic.
Interests All forms of expression, literature, art in all mediums, writing poetry, photography, walking while thinking, thinking while walking, social issues and lost causes.
Favorite Movies Anything except musicals, love stories of the soppy variety, and the appearance of Richard Gere or Bill Murray. Among my favourite films are Casablanca, Amadeus, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, Gran Torino, Snatch, Forrest Gump, The Hateful Eight, Scent of a Woman and The Deer Hunter.
Favorite Music Birdsongs and the songs of the incomparable Leonard Cohen.
Favorite Books The Works of Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte, [English]; John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemmingway, Henry James, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac, [American];George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, [Indian]; James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oliver Goldsmith, George Bernard Shaw, John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, C.S. Lewis, Frank O'Connor, Brendan Behan, Brien Friel, Benedict Kiely, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and William Trevor, the greatest short story writer in the English Language. [Irish]