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Emerson Twain
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GenderMale
LocationCentral, United States
IntroductionEmerson Twain harks from the temperate heart of the USA, where he works as an architect-at-large; a self-reliant employee to the world, designing buildings as fast as they are needed.
InterestsThe history of thought and culture, the story of the Islamic conquests and the cultural destruction of jahiliyya, improvisational music, fly fishing, astronomy, paleontology, ancient erotica, wild mushrooms in gastronomy
Favorite moviesGladiator, Aguirre-the Wrath of God, The Cincinnati Kid, Wings of Desire, Blade Runner, Hanussen, L.A. Confidential, The Godfather, An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, The Big Carnival, Sahara, Glengarry Glen Ross, Das Boot, Song of the South, The Blues Brothers
Favorite musicFranz Joseph Hayden, Bela Bartok, Hector Berlioz, Edvard Grieg, Tom Waits, Most doo-wop, the early Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Pretenders, the Replacements, Jan & Dean even before they met Brian Wilson
Favorite booksThe Odyssey, Assembling California, Dandelion Wine, The Legacy of Jihad, The Golden Bough, A Traveller in Rome, The Hot Zone, On Thermonuclear War, A History of Private Life, Anything by Hendrik Willem van Loon...
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