the jacobin
My blogs
| 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.