Jaeschylus

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Location United States
Introduction I believe a lot can be discovered about a person simply by examining their tastes in music and literature. I'm an inveterate reader who is invariably fascinated by the cryptic and obscure facets of history.
Interests Physical and biological sciences, anthropology, military history, my lovely daughter, weightlifting, hiking, tennis, kayaking, lighthouses, literature, writing poetry, running, history of exploration, philosophy, daydreaming
Favorite Movies "Lawrence of Arabia", "Duck Soup", "Night Must Fall", "Tollbooth", "Gettysburg", "Andersonville", "Smoke Signals", "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", "Platoon", "The Deer Hunter", "Rough Riders", "Help!", "A Hard Day's Night", "Horatio Hornblower" series, "Mutiny on the Bounty" 1935, "Wings", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Gallipoli", "The Long Gray Line", "Scent of a Woman", "Mystic Pizza" (mainly because of Adam Storke)
Favorite Music Enya, Sarah Brightman, Loreena McKennitt, The Doors, The Beatles, The Animals, Corelli, Vivaldi, Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart, Borodin, Ludovico Einaudi, Saint-Saens, Elton John, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Phil Collins, Helmut Lotti, trad. sea shanties, The Dead Milkmen ("Workers of the world, unite and relax!")
Favorite Books Voltaire's Candide, Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Stranger by Camus, Xenophon's Anabasis, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Stonelight by Sheenagh Pugh, Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Stephen Hawking's The Theory of Everything, Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Peterson & Wrangham