Tom Ellis
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired Professor |
| Location | Salem, OR, United States |
| Introduction | I am a recently retired professor of English at Tidewater Community College, now living in Oregon. I am an avid reader and gardener, a practicing Buddhist, and a Gaian humanist philosopher. |
| Interests | Buddhism, Permaculture, Gaia Theory, Gardening, Art, Literature, Music, Travel |
| Favorite movies | Iphigenia, The Corporation, Kilowatt Ours, Branagh's Much Ado, Zefirelli's Romeo and Juliet, BBC Hamlet with Derek Jacobi, Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring, Motorcycle Diaries, Nevada Smith, Fargo, Adaptation, Babel (by Inarritu) |
| Favorite music | Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Purcell, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Schubert, Brahms, Vivaldi, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Capercaillie, Maura O'Connell |
| Favorite books | Tao Te Ching, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Ulysses, Dubliners, The Sound and the Fury, |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
The best place to start would be either Siberia or the northern border of Vietnam or Laos. That way, at the border, you could dig a small hole in an embankment along the border, tunnel through it, and quickly arrive in China--if the customs agents don't nab you first!