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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin; learning Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
  • 63, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • literary translator, wristwatch restorer
  • Ph. D in Classics
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Mission? Mwahahahaha

ABOUT ME

bohemian, former academic

PHILOSOPHY

Radical scepticism: it's so, so hard to say that something *is* *so*.

Interests

Indian classical music (rudra veena, surbahar)
Languages.
Poetry (Kunitz, Nemerov, Anne Carson, Célan, Ammons, Nemerov, Lowell, Amy Clampitt, et al.)

  • poetry
  • music
  • classical music
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Art Tatum, Sonny Rollins, The Kinks, Errol Garner, Dylan ofc, Mozart/Beethoven/Brahms chamber music, Lovin' Spoonful,Coltrane, and of course Sidney Bechet's "Blue Horizon" Plus Indian Classical music (surbahar, rudra veena, sitar: Jay Kishor, Srinivas, Asad Ali Khan, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Had dinner with Saul Bellow in his apartment.

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