the jacobin

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Government
Location The Valley of Olives, Malta
Introduction Only serious when preaching - that just about captures it
Interests ancient history, anglophilia, schopenhauer, boxing, china, diplomacy, duelling, existentialism, germany, goethe, hagiography, holocaust literature, international relations, john donne, karl marx, la scala, lady murasaki shukbu, leon trotsky, mind-altering phenomena, the muse, napoleon, neoconservatism, new york, north korea, novalis, opera, petrarchan love, philosophy, poetry, politics, primo levi, rainer maria rilke, robert graves, shangri-la, terrorism, the book of job, the history of ideas, the meiji era, writing
Favorite Movies Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters, The English Patient, The Third Man, The Green Mile, 21 Grams, Casablanca
Favorite Music Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, Liszt, Muse, the Smashing Pumpkins, Wagner
Favorite Books Anna Karenina, The Black Prince, Don Quixote, The Tale of Genji, The Brothers Karamazov, Austerlitz, Hamlet, Jude the Obscure, anything by Vladimir Nabokov (not an exhaustive list)

When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?

It looked like the face of someone dear to me.