Gender

Female

Location

Northampton, MA

Birthday:

October 7

Favourite music

radiohead. flaming lips. talking heads. prokofiev. shostakovich.

Favourite books

the cossacks (tolstoy). wuthering heights (e.bronte). ariel (plath). war and peace (tolstoy). black lamb and grey falcon (west). the good earth (buck). kim (kipling). lord of the rings (tolkien). sherlock holmes (conan doyle). middlemarch (eliot). the magic mountain (mann). the tempest (shakespeare). angle of repose (stegner). the book of longing (cohen).

Favourite movies

the triplets of belleville. ratatouille. before the rain. the living sea. the lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

Favourite tv shows

youtube. otherwise none, thanks.

Favourite quotes

For some people the day comes when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It's clear at once who has the Yes ready within him; and saying it, he goes from honor to honor, strong in his conviction. He who refuses does not repent. Asked again, he'd still say no. Yet that no--the right no-- drags him down all his life. -C.P. Cavafy * Always those in the vanguard of their time find in Euripedes an expression of their own spirit. He is the great exponent of the forever recurring modern mind. This spirit, always in the world and always the same, is primarily a destructive spirit. "The life without criticism," Plato says, is not worthy to be lived." The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. The established order is always wrong to them. But there is criticism and criticism. Cynical criticism is totally opposed to the temper of the modern mind... Above all, they care for human life and human things and can never stand aloof from them. They suffer for mankind, and what preoccupies them is the problem of pain. They are peculiarly sensitized to "the giant agony of the world." What they see as needless misery around them and what they envisage as needless misery to come is intolerable to them. The world to them is made up of individuals, each with a terrible power to suffer, and the poignant pity of their own hearts precludes them from any philosophy in the face of this awful sum of pain and any capacity to detach themselves from it. They behold, first and foremost, that most sorrowful thing on earth, injustice, and they are driven by it to a passion of revolt. Convention, so often a mask for injustice, they will have none of.... they call into question all pleasant things and comfortable things. They are not of those who take 'all life as their province'; what is good in the age that they live in they do not regard; their eyes are fixed upon what is wrong. And yet they never despair. They are rebels, fighters. They will never accept defeat. It is this fact that gives them their profound influence, the fact that they who see so deep into wrong and misery and feel them so intolerable, never conclude the defeat of the mind of man. Such a spirit, critical, subversive, destructive, is very rarely embodied in a poet. -Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way (Those who frequent this site may recognize the type of personality here described)...

To get to work/school I

Walk, Work from home