Wordsworthit
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | commentator |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | I have done all kinds of work. But, since 2001, I have run an arts & crafts business with my wife, emptied sanitary bins, written a newspaper column, delivered pizzas, engraved glass, worked as an archivist, dealt in antiques, wrote "eating out" reviews, was museum attendant, and now work with people who have various disabilities. I still am a part-time freelance writer, having had seven books published. |
| Interests | Literature, art, current events, history, The Borgias, music, humour, satire, theology, seeing politicians, "journalists," religious and phoney-baloney academic "intellectual" hypocrites exposed. |
| Favorite movies | The Third Man, Passport to Pimlico, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, A Taste of Honey, Casablanca, The Captain's Paradise, La Dolce Vita, |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Bach, "Beatus Vir" by Monteverdi, Sephardic Jewish and Celtic folk music, Most sixties music: Dylan, Donovan, Manfred Mann, The Beatles, anything sung by Teresa Berganza, Comic Opera (such as "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro"). |
| Favorite books | The Bible, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, "Confessions of a Justified Sinner" by James Hogg, "The Bible in Spain" by George Borrow, The Arabian Nights, The Complete Works of Sherlock Homes, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "The Idiot" & "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, Tom Sawyer, "The Old Country" by Sholem Aleichem, All Isaac Bashevis Singer's novels, "The Spanish Inquisition" by Jean Plaidy, "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis, "For the Love of Seven Dolls" by Paul Gallico, all the books of Dave Hunt, and all my own books! |
For your birthday, your aunt gave you a maple syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster. Please write her a thank-you note:
So, you knew my love for maple syrup, in spite of my heart condition and allergy. The rooster enhances my Wedgewood crockery. I cannot thank you enough.