*Last update:  16 January 2022*

My favorite places, books, movies, tastes, etc. etc.

Our favorites define us well. If someone were to immerse themselves in my favorites they’d come to understand me. If you love these things too, we could very well become friends.

Authors…
• William Shakespeare
• George Eliot
• Herman Melville
• Marcel Proust
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• Henry James
• Jane Austen
• JRR Tolkien
• Joseph Conrad
• Umberto Eco

Novels…
• Middlemarch
• Moby Dick
• In Search of Lost Time
• The Turn of the Screw
• Heart of Darkness
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Crime and Punishment
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• War and Peace
• David Copperfield
• Pride and Prejudice
• Lord Jim
• The Lord of the Rings

Places…
• Beartooth Mountains, Montana
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• North Dakota
• Prince William Sound, Alaska
• Iceland
• Scottish Islands and Highlands
• the English countryside, especially the moors
• Riga, Prague, Lisbon, Edinburgh, London, Paris
• Republic of Georgia

Tastes…
• smoky single malt Scotch, especially those from Islay
• chocolate from Pierre Marcolini
• strong, acidic coffee with a generous addition of heavy cream
• aged black garlic
• blueberries, raspberries, cherries, strawberries, and peaches
• our family Christmas cookies
• Rocheforte 10, a Trappist quadruple beer from Belgium
• hot cocoa in the mountains

Movies…
• The Fountain (2006)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Master and Commander (2003)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Big Sleep (1947)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)

Christmas Movies…
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
• White Christmas (1954)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
• The Snowman (1982)
• A Christmas Carol (1984)
• Rare Exports (2012)

Philosophers…
• Aristotle
• Immanuel Kant
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Martin Heidegger
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Emmanuel Levinas

Subjects…
• modern European philosophy
• literary theory
• European history
• evolutionary biology