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Home town:

Holstebro, Denmark

Activity:

Retired translator

Interests:

Travelling to see how people live in other parts of the world and take some snapshots en route. My photos are just snapshots and NOTHING MORE! - Science Fiction, especially Children in Science Fiction: Conceptual Breakthrough, Humour, Intelligence, Psychology, Satire, Sense of Wonder. - Classical music, esp from Mozart to Prokofiev. - Literature that makes you think and not just pass the time! (Two examples of what I mean by that are ATLAS SHRUGGED, published by Ayn Rand in 1957, and THE BLACK SWAN by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, published in 2007- exactly 50 years later! Rand's book got a kind of 'renaissance' after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and with Alan Greenspan considered Rand's most famous disciple, recently I've seen it mentioned on the Internet in analyses of what's 'hit' the American financial system and the American society in general. Personally, I've read ATLAS SHRUGGED twice and intend to go on reading it app. every ten years or so as long as I live! As for THE BLACK SWAN, this book is now so well known that any comments from me would be totally superfluous!) - Long walks in the woods around Brussels. While still in Dk, often at night along the shore of the North Sea, esp in rough weather that made you feel alone under the stars!

Favorite music and artists:

Classical music from Mozart to Prokofiev

Favorite movies and actors:

Allen, Bergman, Capra, Chabrol, Chaplin, Clair, Cukor, Dreyer, Eastwood, Fassbinder, Ford, Hitchcock, Lang, Spielberg, Wilder

Favorite books and authors:

THE OUTSIDER by Colin Wilson.-DER STEPPENWOLF by Hermann Hesse. - Nihilisme? By Gunnar Skirbekk. - THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley. - TERRE DES HOMMES by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry