The back of the hill

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Gender Male
Industry Accounting
Location San Francisco
Introduction Early middle-aged, younger looking than you. And hardly any arthritis. Really. Resident of the Bay Area, though formerly of somewhere in the Netherlands - living in Europe with a US passport can be an adventure. I should also mention that I am not a Red-Sea pedestrian. Make of that what you will.
Interests Various, ranging from wonderfully greasy foods that guarantee major acid indigestion, through odd linguistic stuff, to poetry. Plus tobacco and Talmud-Torah.
Favorite Movies King of Masks, A Chinese Ghost Story, Mommy Dearest, Apocalypse Now, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spinal Tap, The Big Lebowski.
Favorite Music Cajun walzes, Cantonese opera, Irish war songs, Rai, Bhangra. Plus unhappy Hokkien ballads and Mandarin nightclub songs of the thirties, forties, and fifties.
Favorite Books Ada, Pale Fire, Pnin.

You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?

He was close, real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him, as if the boat were being sucked upriver and the water was flowing back...