Interests & Hobbies
Meaning of Life:
'What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross.' Ezra Pound
Relationships, like flowers, need soil to survive, not just a pretty vase. That makes MFC a pretty vase with little water and no soil.
from Hemingway: 'Life breaks all of us and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.'
from James Joyce: 'Better to pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than to fade and wither dismally with age.'
from Norman Maclean: 'It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us... we can love completely without complete understanding.'
'To believe is to suffer. It is like loving someone in the dark who does not answer.' -- Antonius Block, 'The Seventh Seal'
from me: 'True love is neither created nor destroyed, it is simply lost and found.'
Five Things I Can't Live Without:
1. She has the power to fill in her name.
2. Family
3. Books (ideas)
4. A pencil (Pentel GraphGear 1000, 0.5mm) & a Parker ballpoint pen -- without these, all those precious moments in life will be lost, in time, like tears in the rain
That's just four. The fifth one might be the next person I meet. As Michael Buble says "I Just Haven't Met You Yet."
Favorite Books:
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky;
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien;
Suttree, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy;
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce;
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer;
Absalom, Absalom & The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner;
anything by Jane Austen;
Glass Key, Red Harvest, & The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett;
A Mathematician's Apology by G.H.Hardy;
'Three' by Lillian Hellman;
Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake by Hugh Lofting;
Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease
What I Like To Do For Fun:
experience otherness -- some people travel through physical space; I experience the world by touching the spirits of others
Favorite Songs:
Chopin's Nocturnes;
24 Caprices by Paganini
Clair de Lune by Debussy
'Stardust" by Louis Armstrong
'Layla' by Derek and the Dominoes
Allman Brothers -- Live at Fillmore East
There is no short list here. Music is the language of the soul. The greatest hearts cannot be contained within the limits of a tiny list.
Favorite Movies:
Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick
"Person of Interest" (TV series)
Craziest Thing I've Ever Done:
Falling in love in this place. But true love is so rare I never question its ability to exist in any place. Still, the soil in this garden of mfc is not conducive to growing strong relationships.
Love is not that thing outside yourself that you cannot live without. It is that safe harbor inside you that gives someone else a place to be nurtured and to grow in this chaotic world.
If I Could Be Anywhere Right Now:
IHOP
Waffle House (fine dining)
Breakfast is my favorite meal, in a fine hotel or a dingy diner -- wherever it happens
Hobbies:
Reading. Riting. 'Rithmetic.
Talents:
Wisdom. It is pain.
Perfect Mate:
Not me of course, that's why I'm single
Perfect Date:
Nietzsche once said that they perfect mate was someone you could talk to for the rest of your life. Everything else is inessential.
Turn Ons/Offs:
Turn On: Memory is all. The more good memories you can accumulate in life, the more hopes you have to cling to when nothing else will support you in mid air.
Turn Off: 'bb' is a dealbreaker -- a "stop" sign to any hope for meaningful conversation
Best Reason to Get to Know Me:
I can see the answers to your problems better than I can my own