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Member: OrsoRaggiante

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TagsModern Middle East (48), Modern Europe (46), US Foreign Policy (40), Language acquisition (35), Nuclear History (28), Fiction (21), Iran (19), Nationalism (19), France (17), India (15) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsTariq Ali, Rivka Galchen, Elias Khoury, Laila Lalami, Amin Maalouf, Naguib Mahfouz, V. S. Naipaul, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Tahir Shah, Dalia Sofer, Shashi Tharoor (Shared favorites)

About meI live in multiple centuries simultaneously; my Being has four valences, and I find those with less than three to be quite bromidic. English is my fourth language, and I am marginally functional with it - most of you have no excuse! Home is the Eastern hemisphere for me sans East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Australia. Columbus was a drunk, syphilitic Italian funded by the Spaniards. My habits are Oriental...books, ghalyoon, nuts, fruits, etc. and I do NOT believe in striving. The apocalypse is nothing to be feared, just planned for, because non-Being is not necessarily better than Being. And yes, fear is the underlying structure of life - without it, we'd all flail about and degenerate into...pop culture. I have yet many lives left, probably because I repeat my mistakes and am a slow learner where it counts... When in doubt, I prefer to blame the British...and on the rare occasion it is not them, it is the Germans.

About my libraryThis is a list of books I intend to keep - I will not be adding those that will find their way on Amazon used books soon. Since work and pleasure overlap so much for me, I did not care to create multiple lists or profiles...

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Member sinceOct 24, 2008