CURRENT MISSION

To build a garden in the ghetto.

ABOUT ME

Despite having been raised by savages on old books, cheap wine, and the best tea, I'm little more than your typical fishmonger, gentleman pretender, shaman about town and country, dandy highwayman, and socialist upstart. All apologies.

I'm queer, and genderqueer. I collect old books, masks, and unloved antiques. I'm something of a writer, and I quite like wearing hats.

PHILOSOPHY

"I have undertaken a labor - a labor out of love for the world and to comfort noble hearts: those that I hold dear, and the world to which my heart goes out. Not the common world do I mean of those who cannot bear grief, and desire to bathe in bliss. Their world and manner of life my tale does not regard: its life and mine lie apart. Another world do I hold in mind, which bears together in one heart its bitter sweet, its dear grief, its heart's delight and its pain of longing, dear life and sorrowful death, its dear death and sorrowful life. In this world let me have my world, to be damned with it, or to be saved." ~Gottfried von Strassburg

Interests

aesthetics, anarchism, androgyny, art nouveau, automata, bearded ladies, dandies, Indian food, labyrinths, literature, magic, masks, mythology, Nikola Tesla, religious art and architecture, renommierschmiss, riding elephants, socks, tea, the ancient world, waistcoats, wanderlust.

• fish
• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• architecture
• photography
• dining
• wine
• indian food
• gardening
• magic
• fishing

Music, Movies, and Books

My favourite authors include Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Emily Post.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have an amazing Victorian photography album that records the travels of two American lesbians in Germany, Italy, and the Middle East. Attending the birth of my niece was also pretty neat.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to fillet a fish and open an oyster. I can teach you about mythology and English literature, too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Netherlands, United States

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