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| User: | asxapproaches0 (1385686)
How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Six Hours in Belgrade
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| Name: | Six Hours in Belgrade |
| E-mail: | asxapproacheszero@hotmail.com
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| Bio: | Life List (Non Comprehensive):
1 Listen to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Картинки с выставки) while at the Great Gate of Kiev
2 Read three major works in their original language (Divina Commedia, Война и миръ, Faust: der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil )
3 Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad (Транссибирская магистраль)
4 Attend a bullfight in Spain
5 Plan, and execute, the 'Magellan Trip'
I am a graduate student pursuing dual Master's degrees in both Library Science (specializing in rare books and manuscripts) and Russian and Eastern European Studies (specializing in Czech area studies).
Lately, I've been very interested in Eastern and Central European languages. I am fluent in English, proficient in French, and have a very small amount of both functional Czech and Hebrew. I am currently teaching myself Russian. In the future, I am interested in learning (to at least basic proficiency) Latin, Czech, German, Serbocroatian, Ukranian, Lithuanian, and Latvian.
I frequently feel a substantial disconnect with contemporary American society. As a result, I fill my life with experiences, music, art, and literature in order to sufficiently placate my unhappiness with the present-day. I identify heavily with European intellectual, political, and cultural movements, and feel substantially more at home in Central and Eastern Europe than I do in America.
I want to decorate my house with danse macabre art work and too many bookshelves.
Places I've traveled to:
- Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Belgrade, Serbia
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Budapest, Hungary
- Tel Aviv/Jerusalem/Be'er Sheba/Tiberius/Tzafat, Israel
- London, England
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Vienna, Austria
- Zagreb/Split, Croatia
- Paris, France
- Grand Cayman Islands, UK
- Montreal/Toronto, Canada
Trips I would like to take:
- Pyongyang, North Korea
- Trans-Siberian Rail Road
- Kiev/Lviv/Chernihiv, Ukraine
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Moscow/St Petersburg/Irkutsk/Omsk/Lake Baikal, Russia
- Warsaw/Cracow, Poland
- Seville, Spain (for a bullfight)
- Dublin/Edinborough, UK
- Bucharest/Transylvania, Romania
- Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Morocco (in one trip)
- Kalua Lampur
A room without books is like a body without a soul - Cicero
Books Read in 2008:
I The Book Thief - M Zukas (1/1)
II In the Country of Last Things - P Auster (1/3)
III We Never Make Mistakes - A Solzehnitsyn (1/5)
IV Beasts - J C Oates (1/10)
V Voices from Chernobyl - S Alexievich (1/11)
VI R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - K Čapek (1/12)
VII Him Her Him Again the End of Him - P Marx (1/13)
VIII Closely Watched Trains - B Hrabal (1/16)
IX Letter to a Christian Nation - S Harris (1/18)
X Born on a Blue Day - D Tammet (1/23)
XI Very Good, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse (1/26)
XII God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - C Hitchens (1/28)
XIII The Year of Yes - M Headley (1/30)
XIV Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag - J Bardach (2/2)
XV The City, Not Long After - P Murphy (2/10)
XVI Lies My Teacher Told Me - J Loewen (2/13)
XVII Auschwitz - L Rees (2/18)
XVIII This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - T Borowski (2/20)
XIX Man's Search for Meaning - V Frankl (2/28)
XX The Unbearable Lightness of Being - M Kundera (2/28)
XXI Maus I - A Spiegelman (3/1)
XXII Maus II - A Spiegelman (3/1)
XXIII Mendelssohn is on the Roof - J Weil (3/5)
XXIV American Gods - N Gaiman (3/5)
XXV Memory - P Grimbert (3/13)
XXVI Outwitting History - A Lansky (4/4)
XXVII Introducing Nietzsche - L Crane [reread] (4/7)
XXVIII Skipping Towards Gomorrah - D Savage (4/15)
XXIX Zlata's Diary - Z Filipovic (4/24)
XXX Bonk - M Roach (4/25)
XXXI How to Read Nietzsche - K A Pearson (4/25)
XXXII The Stalin Front - G Ledig (4/30)
XXXIII Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy - A Politkovskaya (5/5)
XXXIV The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - R Alexander (5/7)
XXXV Johnny Got His Gun - D Trumbo (5/13)
XXXVI Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - C Handler (5/15)
XXXVII Why We Left Islam - S Crimp (5/22)
XXXVIII Right Ho, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse (5/27)
Book Statistics for 2007: 51 books read (102% of goal), 16299 pages covered (108.66% of goal). Average book length of 319.59 pages, with a standard deviation of approximately 106.
My so-called existential crisis is actually just my personality.
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| Memories:: | 3 entries |
| Interests: | 150: antique books, anton chekov, astronomy, atheism, austria, bach, baroque architecture, bbc world report, belgrade, bizarre items, bombay sapphire, book arts, book binding, book conservation, book history, book stores, borodin, bosnia, chess, classical music, codices, coffee, cooking, courtly love, cyrillic, czech, czech literature, czech republic, dante alighieri, dekadance, dystopia, eastern europe, english, esotericism, essays, european history, european identity, european nationalism, existentialism, falling in love, forensic pathology, franz kafka, french, futility, geert wilders, german, german literature, german opera, germanic studies, gin, glenn gould, goethe, goldberg variations, gothic architecture, gothic literature, hannibal lecter, hard-boiled fiction, hell, hrabal, illuminated manuscripts, infectious diseases, intj, israel, israel defense force, john fowles, kafka, language, love, mathematics, medical curiosae, mercury theater, misanthropy, moody intellectuals, morbidity, murder, mussorgsky, nationalism, neo-gothic architecture, nietzsche, nighttime, nihilism, nikolai gogol, obscure illnesses, obsession, old medical instruments, old radio shows, opera, pan-european nationalism, pathology, perfectionism, pestilence, philosophy, physics, piano, pluto, politics, prague, prague castle, prokofiev, public health, pulp science fiction, quantum psychology, rachmaninov, rare books, rare manuscripts, reading, retrofuturism, robespierre, running, russia, russian, russian literature, sarajevo, science, serbia, shortwave radio, singularity, sociology, soviet literature, spires, stravinsky, tchaikovsky, tea, the collector, the divine comedy, the firebird suite, the fountainhead, the inferno, the magus, the marquis de sade, the rite of spring, the secret history, the voynich manuscript, time capsules, too loud a solitude, travel, unrequited love letters, ussr literature, victorian decor, vladimir putin, voice of russia, voynich manuscript, wagner, wagnerian operas, war fiction, westinghouse time capsule, wine, writers, writing, zionism |
| Schools: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY (2004 - 2007)
Univerzita Karlova - Praha, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic (2006 - 2007)
Indiana University - Bloomington - Bloomington, IN (2008 - present)
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science - Bloomington, IN (2008 - present)
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| Member of: | 16: bloomington, bodmodtrade, bookcollectors, booksellers, booktards, conservators, elitistasshat, gaugetrade, gymrats, iu_people, iu_slis, library_mofo, libraryschool, rpi, ut_ischool, wonder_cabinet |
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