Know Thyself. Pursue Knowledge. Pursue Love. Because they're one and the same. And on such wings we can fly.
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'Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell'.
E. Dickinson
Current Residence: Italy
Favourite genre of music: 70's prog and hard rock, and some classical pieces (esp. Vivaldi's), J-music(Yoko Kanno)
Favourite style of art: Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelite, Renaissance art, Late Gothic
Operating System: Windows XP (Home) and Windows 8 pro.
Wallpaper of choice: a Nautilus fractal
Favourite cartoon character: Pepe Le Pew :p Anime charas: Oscar F. de Jarjayes, André Grandier, Ami Mizuno; Van Fanel; Gankutsuou(Montecristo); Chagum (Seirei no Moribito).
Personal Quote: Per Aspera Ad Astra ('through difficulties to reach the stars')
Favourite Visual Artist
Michelangelo; Filippino Lippi, Raphael; Klimt; Burne-Jones; Waterhouse; Mucha; Redon; O'Keefe
Favourite Movies
Hamlet (Zeffirelli's), LotR, Sense&Sensib. ('95), Rear Window, P&P ('95), Secret of Kells
Favourite TV Shows
North&South (BBC), Jane Eyre (BBC 1983), Seirei no Moribito (2007), Rose of Versailles (1979)
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Pink Floyd, Beatles, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Loreena McKennitt, Vanilla Fudge, Aretha Franklin
Favourite Books
Empire of Signs (R. Barthes), Hamlet's Mill (G. de Santillana), Stanze (G. Agamben)
Favourite Writers
Jane Austen; E. Dickinson; E.B.Browning, Michel Rio, G. de Maupassant, M. Doody, Dante, Bröntes
Tools of the Trade
medium-soft pencils, coloured crayons, pen, resin, polyclay
Other Interests
textiles, slow food, tea tasting, trekking