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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| 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inquiring mind, struggling into passion under the load of knowledge, had, with that stimulus sadly and abruptly withdrawn, sunk into the quiet of passive, aimless study."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, |