Lester Hunt
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Teacher
- Location: Oregon : Wisconsin : United States
About Me
I teach philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but I live in the village of Oregon, about a block from the open countryside.
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
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Interests
Favorite Movies
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- Letter from an Unknown Woman
- Vertigo
- Love Me Tonight
- The Scarlet Empress
- Un Chien Andalou
- King Kong
- The Tales of Hoffmann
- Citizen Kane
- The Lost Weekend
- Touch of Evil
- Tokyo Story
- Die Nibelungen
- The Big Heat
- The General Died at Dawn
- Somewhere in Time
- The Big Steal
- The Browning Version
- (dir. by Asquith)
- Fast Cheap and Out of Control
- Ben Hecht
- Greta Garbo
Favorite Music
- To listen to:
- Berlioz
- Wagner
- Carl Nielsen
- Heinrich Schutz
- nineteenth century Germanic chamber or symphonic music
- Miklos Rozsa
- Rachmaninoff
- acoustic guitar blues
- operetta
- flamenco
- rockabilly
- Rogers and Hart
- Cole Porter
- Ukelele Ike
- Bill Monroe
- Bobby Darin
- To play:
- Irish and Scottish fiddle music
- Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin
- Fritz Kreisler
Favorite Books
- The Odyssey
- Huckleberry Finn
- Anarchy State and Utopia
- Moby Dick
- The Fountainhead
- Walden
- The Tempest
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- The Old Testament
- The Tao Te Ching
- Heart of Darkness
- Hawthorne's Tales and Sketches
- Anthem
- Mrs. Chiang's Szechuan Cookbook
- Paul Prudomme's Louisiana Kitchen
- Count Bruga
- Theodore Roethke
- Robinson Jeffers
- Raymond Chandler
- Mencken
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