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My blogs

Gender	Male
Occupation	Bureaucrat
Location	Northern New England, United States
Introduction	"I comprehended...how an ardent, serious, inquiring mind, struggling into passion under the load of knowledge, had, with that stimulus sadly and abruptly withdrawn, sunk into the quiet of passive, aimless study." Bulwer-Lytton, "The Caxtons: A Family Picture"
Interests	Smart People, Attractive People, People with Appealing Personalities, Artists, Successful Writers, People who speak Foreign Languages and Impress People Worth Impressing, Philologists, People who Travel a lot, Hotels, Trains, Highways, Nostalgia
Favorite Movies	Chariots of Fire, Lolita (1962), Wild Strawberries, Closely Watched Trains, The Best Years of Our Lives, It's a Wonderful Life, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, L'Atalante, Roman Holiday, The Apartment, Doctor Zhivago, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Kid, The Third Man, Stolen Kisses
Favorite Music	My taste in music stinks. I like Gershwin/Cole Porter era showtunes, 1940s swing, Debussy and Satie, Northern British pop 1960s-90s, Twangy guitars, Johnny Cash, Judy Garland, the famous Miles Davis records. I don't know.
Favorite Books	David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, A Dance to the Music of Time, Lives of the English Poets, Plutarch's Lives, Don Quixote, Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, War and Peace, "White Nights", Life of Johnson, An American Tragedy, All Quiet on the Western Front