Quincey Riddle
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Language proofing |
| Location | Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Born in the Highlands of Scotland, educated in the Borders and Edinburgh, lived and worked in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Italy and The People's Republic of China before returning to Edinburgh. Now residing in Glasgow. |
| Interests | Language, history, constitutional law, communism, anarchism and politics generally. In particular: Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Far Eastern affairs. Mediaeval Mongolian History. The Silk Road. Fine Art, music, photography and cinema. Motor sport and fencing (sabre). Engineering as applied to railways, submarines and aircraft. Physics, and cosmology. |
| Favorite movies | The Third Man by Carol Reed, Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick, Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There by the Coen Bros, Citizen Kane by Orson Welles - and many others of this ilk. |
| Favorite music | Symphonies by Beethoven, Stravinski, Mozart, the works of Bach, Handel, Hayden and Elgar, Jazz by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharoah Saunders, John Handy, Mingus, Dolphy, Archie Shepp and the rest. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, The Kinks, Alabama 3 and such like. |
| Favorite books | The crime fiction works of Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, James Ellroy and Philip Kerr etc. The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Capital (vol 1) by Karl Marx. Additionally, Graham Greene and many others far too numerous to include here. |