anatole
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | dilettante |
| Location | honolulu, hawaii, United States |
| Introduction | I burn hot. I tend to exhaust people in conversation, like Margaret Fuller did Carlyle. Which leaves me (but apparently not Margaret) always wishing I'd shut up sooner. I have quite a few friends and not many enemies, but I'm very proud of the few I do have. There is consensus among my friends about me, which is how I know to write about myself. What my enemies think of me I have no idea. That, of course, could be dangerous. The list of interests and favorites is absurdly partial and half-assed, particularly as to music and books. It's the stupid format of the blog itself, as given, that, of course, I color outside the lines and burst the seams of. |
| Interests | essentialism, American Transcendentalism, the Occidental Individual Self, transphobia, transsexualism, GLBT, Classlessness, masculinity, MSM, Gaydar, extirpating the last vestiges of Viennese "depth" psychology, hypermasculinity, misogyny, straight men, social constructionism, humanism, Burying Freud, classical music, gay porn, architecture, art, history, art history, French, Italian, English, literature, politics, astronomy, geology, Mayan epigraphy, humanism, Buddhism, skepticism, cosmology, writing music, halogens, the Moche people, "soft paste" porcelain, Ebenistes de l'Ancien Regime, Mexican history, cities of Italy, Vedanta, Taoism, Chinese art, Moghul architecture, Christian theology, astrology, calligraphy, Giambattista Tiepolo, Balthasar Neumann, Samuel Johnson, Baron Corvo, Henry Adams, Henry James, Prosper Merimee, Emily Dickinson, dirigibles, American riverboats, sex differences, gay literature |
| Favorite movies | Young Frankenstein, The River, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Harold and Maud, Tom Jones, anything by Bunuel,Women on the Verge of a nervous Breakdown, Amarcord, 8 1/2, Antes que Anochezca, Up at the Villa, Blazing Saddles, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Giulietta of the Spirits, All these Women |
| Favorite music | Guillaume de Machaut, Josquin, William Byrd, Mozart,Victoria, Alonso Lobo, Orlando di Lasso, all of the Bachs, Hasse, Graun, Weiss, Chopin, Rameau, Allessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Galuppi, Locatelli, Telemann, Gluck, William Boyce, Quantz, Peter Phillips, Albinoni, Vivaldi,,Pergolesi (real and faux), Viotti, Haydn, Corelli, Handel, Dauvergne, Gluck, Wagner, Rossini, Beethoven, Boccherini, Sammartini, Nardini, Tartini |
| Favorite books | Zadig, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, Gryll Grange, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi,Screwtape Letters, The Rape of the Lock, the Lord of the Rings, Le Livre de mon Ami, La Vie en Fleur, Paradise Lost, Madame Bovary, Pierre et Jean, Les Dieux Ont Soif, L'Ile des Pingouins, La Revolte des Anges, Anatole France en Pantoufles, Buddies, I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Some Men Are Lookers, Follies of the Wise, Some Dance to Remember, Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, A la recherche du Temps perdu, The Importance of Living, The Soong Dynasty, Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi, Vathek, E.F. Benson's 'Lucia' novels, La Princesse de Cleves, The Code of the Woosters, Passage to India |