Mark Abe
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Alexandria, VA, United States |
| Introduction | Again and again / Sleep calls but stories have me / In their trance-like grip |
| Interests | Writing, photography, Native American flute, birds, gardening, visual and performing arts, Spanish |
| Favorite movies | Notorious, Dead Poets' Society, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Big Eden, Midnight in Paris |
| Favorite music | American standards, Native American flute, world flutes, late 90s country, anything Rachmaninov, Latin pop (Reik, Obie Bermudez, Diego Torres, Juanes, Enanitos Verdes, etc.) |
| Favorite books | This Boy's Life, Memoirs of a Geisha, The City and the Pillar, War Dances, The Painted Veil, The Brief Wondrous LIfe of Oscar Wao |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
It will commemorate the writing of a story, whether published or not, which moved someone deeply in some way, and it will be made of unglazed terra cotta to signify the impermanence of honor and memory and to emphasize the humanity of the achievement as it melts in the rain.