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Rachel

I am here for Networking

About Me

an anachrotech girl in a digital world I am the rhythm thief.

My Interests

a certain zen, abandoned things, anachronisms, anatomy and anatomists, antiquarian books, antique medical devices, archetypes, architecture, automata, bibliomanes, bibliophiles, biomimicry, books, botany, brains in vats, cartography, clockworks, coffee, cognitive science, collective nouns, cryptozoology, cultural studies, curiosity cabinets, cyborg theory, dead languages, dictionaries, difference engines, entomology, ephemera, epicureanism, epistemology, etymology, existentialism, fairy tales, fairy tales retold, folklore, goblin markets, golemim, grammar, hedge mazes, horology, iconography, illuminated manuscripts, imaginary gardening, incunabula, indo-european mythology, labyrinths, languages, libraries, linguistics, literature, logophilia, metaphor, morality, mostly obsolete vocabulary, museums, mythology, old books, old bookstores, old typewriter keys, ontologies, osteology, palaeontology, philosophy, poisoned apples, pomegranates, post-modernism, rare books, red-hot iron shoes, relics, revenge tropes, robots, shakespeare, simulacra, steampunk, stendhalian crystallization, subtexts, symbols, thesauri, tropes, typography, victorian science, words, words words words, wrath.

I'd like to meet:

Harley Dune.

Music:

Madrigals, qavvali, ridiculous electronic covers, salsa, triphop. Once upon a time, I was a gothic princess.

Movies:

Poetic fantasies, documentaries, film noir, costume melodramas, Hong Kong cinema, German Expressionist cinema, horror and science fiction that's so bad it comes back around to good again.

Television:

I have a television with no reception and play cds through my dvd player.

Books:

At last count, over five hundred fiction books and over three hundred non-fiction books. I think this is perfectly reasonable, which may or may not be a problem.