B. Prokop

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About me

Gender Male
Location Baltimore Proud - "B'lieve, Hon!", United States
Introduction Welcome to Celestial Pilgrimage! NOTE TO FIRST TIME VISITORS: I recommend you start with the very earliest posting (from April 21st, 2016) and read forward from there. The various postings are all interconnected, and build cumulatively on what has gone before. ............ Buen Camino! ................................................................................... If you are interested only in my analysis of The Skylark of Space, it begins with the entry "Petrified with Astonishment..." posted on August 8th, 2016 ................................................................................... The current series of postings on observing the Moon begins with the entry FULL MOON from November 14th.
Interests INTERESTS: Prayer, Urban Ecology, Astronomy, Classic Cinema, Russian Language, History, Music from the 60's and early 70's, Baseball, Crossword Puzzles
Favorite Movies FAVORITE MOVIES: Andrei Rublev, Ivan the Terrible, The Apostle, The Thief of Bagdad (with Douglas Fairbanks), Sideways, Flight to Mars, True Grit (with John Wayne), Eloge de l'amour (Jean Luc Godard), Late Spring (Ozu), An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu), Actually - anything by Ozu except for Good Morning - his only flop, Still Walking, Ballad of a Soldier, Metropolis, Faust (Murnau), Ben Hur, Master and Commander, Diary of a Country Priest, Smoke (with Harvey Keitel), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Dark Star, Between Two Worlds, Summer Hours, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Woodstock (the documentary), A Canterbury Tale, Shadowlands, The Way (with Martin Sheen), The Swimmer (with Burt Lancaster), FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Adventures in Paradise, Star Trek (the original series), Homicide - Life on the Streets, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, The Wild Wild West, Gilligan's Island
Favorite Music FAVORITE MUSIC: Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howard Hanson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, John Rutter, Anglican Hymns, Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Seals and Crofts, Van Morrison, The Incredible String Band, Jefferson Airplane, and of course... The Beatles
Favorite Books FAVORITE BOOKS: Biblia Sacra Vulgata (God), The Divine Comedy (Dante), The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholic Church), Le Morte D'Arthur (Malory), Divine Mercy in My Soul (St. Maria Faustina Kowalska), Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot), Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis), Perelandra (Lewis), That Hideous Strength (Lewis), Moby Dick (Melville), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), Taliessin Through Logres (Charles Williams), The Region of the Summer Stars (Williams), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Daniel Berrigan), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), The Skylark Series (E.E. Smith), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Worm Ouroboros (Eddison), The Everlasting Man (G.K. Chesterton), A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth), The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame), The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann), Kim (Rudyard Kipling), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller), Time is the Simplest Thing (Clifford D. Simak), Voyager (Stephen Pyne), The Little Prince (Saint Exupery), Epic Moon (Sheehan and Dobbins)