John Pine

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction I started out reading medicine at Barts, took a degree in English at Trinity Dublin, became an actor in Ireland, performed in the Mousetrap in the West End, taught in Montessori schools in England and the US, married, had five children, lost four of them through the dreadful 'family' courts.
Interests Acting, Teaching, Photography, painting, Subud, Montessori, curing ageing, Rotary, the cell, publishing, Sanskrit, making films, the foundations of reality.
Favorite Movies Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Mission (Morriconi), Asparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Favorite Music Fauré's Requiem, Saint-Saëns' Le carnaval des animaux
Favorite Books James Stephens 'The Crock of Gold', Flann O'Brien 'At Swim-Two-Birds', Frederick W H Myers 'Human Personality', Montessori 'The Absorbent Mind', Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy', R Connell and Geraldine Cummins 'Healing the Mind', John Emsley 'Nature's Building Blocks'