Ruari

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Publishing
Occupation Freelance Journalist
Location Salisbury, United Kingdom
Introduction Full-time freelance journalist since 1998. Previous experience in investment business, banking, rock music and motor racing.
Interests Golf, music (principally R&B but quite wide tastes), rugby (watching rather than participating these days), films, reading.
Favorite Movies The Third Man, The Truman Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Pleasantville, Ben-Hur, Bullitt, The Searchers, Bill & Ted's Bogus Adventure, Solaris (the Russian version by a nose but George Clooney's is good, too), Duck Soup, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Lord of the Rings (Fellowship especially for the tragedy of Boromir), etc, etc
Favorite Music RnB, rock, blues, folk, country, Mahler, Wagner, Brahms, some Beethoven.
Favorite Books Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Collected Works of TS Eliot, Slaughterhouse Five, A Burned-Out Case, The Heart of the Matter, Brighton Rock, An Evening with Morin (that's cheating - it's a short story!), The Sirens of Titan, Did Someone Say Totalitarianism, The Plague of Fantasies, The Wealth of Nations, Capital, The General Theory...(Keynes), Great Apes, etc, etc, (the list is far too long!)

When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?

It was enough to make me cry