Maxim

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Pilgrim
Location Newberg, Oregon, United States
Introduction Former Keeper of Turtles (they died). There is a succinct summation of my personality on page 98 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
Interests Truth and Beauty
Favorite Movies A Man For All Seasons, The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Favorite Music Liturgical music sung by congregations not choirs, Other than that none really, trying hard to wean myself from the Heavy-Metal habits of my youth.
Favorite Books Orthodoxy, What's Wrong With The World, The Outline of Sanity, The Man Who Was Thursday, Napoleon of Notting Hill, A Preface to Paradise Lost, Till We Have Faces, The Great Divorce, That Hideous Strength, The Silver Chair, Nihilism, Genesis Creation and Early Man, The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church, God's Revelation to the Human Heart, Not of this World, (biography), The Orthodox Veneration of Mary the Mother of God, Pride and Prejudice, The Vicar of Wakefield, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Unquestionably, the work that has influenced my life the most is "The Lord of the Rings", but I have read it so much over the years that I don't read it much anymore; I hate the movies passionately.

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

I think it is every bit as likely that forks evolved from spoons as that Giraffes evolved from Goldfish.