Dan Ficklin
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| Introduction | Philologist; revolutionist. |
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| Favorite movies | The Princess Bride, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Empire Strikes Back, Die Hard, The Aristocats |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Rush, Tool, Nirvana, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists, et. al. |
| Favorite books | The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, A Christmas Carol, The Order of the Phoenix, Out of the Silent Planet, A Horse and His Boy, Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, Little House on the Prarie, and innumerable others; beyond the strictly "book" I find things I prefer: in the long and short of Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Poe, Melville, Vonnegut, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; the poetry of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, W.C. Williams and Robert Frost; of the critical theories found in One-Dimensional Man, Differance, Das Kapital, all that I have read of Freud, Bakhtin, Foucault, Derrida and Chomsky (except his linguistics). I cannot express how much I like to read things. Realistically, the best books I've read I haven't read yet. |
