I'm a metaphysical Medici who enjoys the absurd, the inane, the loyal, and the self-absorbed. I also aspire towards living my life like a character in a Graham Greene novel (but with a better ending, I would hope).
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Theology, Culture, Roman Histoy, Catholicism, Papal History, Latin, The Crusades, Anthropology, Truth, Wit, Wagner, Italy, John Henry Newman, The Substance of Being, "metaphysical painkillers", philosophical pessimism, Graham Greene, Confession (both my own and others), 20th Century Music (thanks to Alex Ross)
Pick anyone from history, and I'd probably like to meet them. I do lean heavily towards religious figures and dictators (but not at the same time...I doubt Jesus and Hitler would have kind words for each other).
From Monteverdi to Mahler with other 20th Century composers thrown in, Rock in its various incarnations, "pop music," and everything in between (except for Emo-Irish music)
Into Great Silence, Amadeus, Kingdom of Heaven, Se7en, The Last Temptation of Christ
Arrested Development, Rome, Carnivale, the Sopranos (HBO really is at the top of its game here), Boston Legal, I Claudius, Battlestar Galactica
Nearly anything by Graham Greene, Gore Vidal, and Robert Graves, A Confederacy of Dunces, Brideshead Revisited, The Power and the Glory, Amadeus, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Paradise Lost, Cicero's Letters to Atticus, the writings of Julian the Apostate, The Rest is Noise
Faith would dictate the Saints, the Mind would dictate the transgressives.