Rat

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Location Nashville, TN, United States
Interests Orthodox Christianity, philology, cooking, literature, æsthetics, history, folklore, epic poetry, wuxia, taijiquan, aikido, tea, Nipponica, Celtica, Victoriana, Arthuriana, Scandinaviana, Sinology, Romantisicm, mediævalism, mythopœia, English Arts & Crafts, mingei, wabi-sabi, Kelmscott Press, bookbinding, typography, Hudson River School, Art Nouveau
Favorite Movies The New World, The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal, Pan's Labyrinth, The Illusionist, Hellboy, Star Wars, Ostrov, Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, House of Flying Daggers, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, The Seventh Seal, Gladiator, Jade Warrior, The Restless, A Man for All Seasons, Sweet Land, The Painted Veil, Mostly Martha, Master and Commander, Ratatouille, Legend of the Guardians, The Secret of Kells
Favorite Music Byzantine chant, J.S. Bach, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, John Dowland, Hildegard von Bingen, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Simon & Garfunkle, Alison Krauss, Andrew Peterson, Kate Rusby, Cécile Corbel, Loreena McKennitt, Cherish the Ladies, Dervish, Alten, Bohola, Hyperborea, Gjallarhorn, Triakel, Väsen, Svanevit, Ranarim, Bukkene Bruse, La Nef, Jack Wall, Trevor Jones, Kō Ōtani, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Joe Hisaishi, Yae, Rikki, Kokia, Rimi Natsukawa, Sa Dingding
Favorite Books Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Smith of Wootton Major, Mythago Wood, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Everlasting Man, The Samurai, An Artist of the Floating World, Tales of the Dying Earth, East, the Gormenghast novels, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Wind in the Willows, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Discarded Image, The Abolition of Man, Till We Have Faces, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Phantastes, Lilith, The Wood Beyond the World, The Kalevala, The Ballad of the White Horse, Orthodoxy, the Father Brown stories, the Redwall series, the Myst books, Mushishi, Undine