Gender	Female
Industry	Science
Occupation	Amateur Fruit Enthusiast
Location	United States
Introduction	possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
Interests	remaining as unorthodox as the inquiry requires, writing something every day, abandoning formal observances (as much as one can), aiming for glowing skin, learning new languages, expanding the pharmacopeia, savoring the tang of lactic acid in the legs, viewing the private lives of plants, (still) believing in humble persistent brilliance, contemplating sex as an adjunct for travel, navigating the visible dark, bathing rituals, composing my own Tarocchi, translating the mind through the hands
Favorite movies	Sex and Lucia, Woman in the Dunes, Two Days in Paris, Spider, The Piano Teacher, Me You & Everyone We Know, Love is the Devil, Notes on a Scandal, The Science of Sleep, Carandiru, Ma Soeur!, Eyes Wide Shut, The Reader
Favorite music	Polly Jean Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Eluvium, Autour de Lucie, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Marianne Faithfull, Roedelius, Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Stars of the Lid, Philip Glass, Javier Navarrete, Joni Mitchell, Madredeus, I am Kloot, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Legendary Pink Dots, Smog, Björk, Cat Power, David Gray, Unto Ashes, Qntal, Beck, Cibo Matto, Lovespirals, The Fiery Furnaces, Tom Waits, Catherine Wheel, Thom Yorke, The Decemberists, Igor Stravinsky, Kate Bush, My Brightest Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Emiliana Torrini, This Mortal Coil, Flunk, Patrick Wolf, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blonde Redhead, Serge Gainsbourg, Interpol, Sounds from the Ground, The Kills, Smoke City, Chavela Vargas
Favorite books	Frank Wilson's The Hand, Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year, Jorie Graham's Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts, Charles Wright's Black Zodiac, Sue Hubbell's Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Diane Ackerman's The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, William Logan's Macbeth in Venice, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Honoré de Balzac's The Wrong Side of Paris, Nick Cave's The Ass Saw the Angel, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Dave Eggers' How We are Hungry, David Markson's The Last Novel, Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

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