jack perry
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States |
| Introduction | Mostly I research mathematics, teach mathematics, and help my wife raise a family. Back when I had spare time, I liked to read literature, write computer programs, write poems, etc. |
| Interests | Dostoevsky, literature, mathematics, computer algebra, Catholicism, Christianity, foreign cultures |
| Favorite movies | Il ladro di bambini, Ulee's Gold, Au revoir les enfants, La vita è bella, Bernadette |
| Favorite music | Beethoven's Ninth performed by the Raleigh Sympony, Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed in a переход, JS Bach, a marvelous tune called "The Sentinel" (I think) by one of Bach's sons, Jean Michel Jarre, some Pink Floyd, some Loreena McKennitt, some Enya, Connie Dover's version of "Ubi Caritas", praying Gregorian chant (not listening to it), a few others |
| Favorite books | Безы (Demons) (Dostoevsky), , Il cavallo rosso (The Red Horse) (Corti), Il fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal) (Pirandello), Catch-22 (Heller), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkein), Brave New World (Huxley), Silas Marner (Eliot), The Apology of Socrates and Crito (Plato), A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Dune (Herbert), Starship Troopers (Heinlein), Who? (Budris), The Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins |