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Frank

abyssus ad abyssum invocat

About Me

Hallowe'en man, bellydance fan, poet appointed. Writer, editor, teacher, husband, father, survivor. Russian Orthodox Christian of Irish descent in communion with the See of Rome. Paleoconservative with Libertarian leanings. Closet copperhead. Make mine kalamarakia with retsina, Laphroaig to follow.

My Interests

Philosophy, poetry, music, theosis, higher education, esoterica. Horror in literature and film. Archaeology and chronological revisionism. Music and dance of the Eastern Mediterranean.

I'd like to meet:

Bishops and bellydancers, monsters and mystics, masked beauty and the unspeakabe unmasked.And you?

Music:

Bach, Bruckner, Handel, Purcell, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Ives, Hovhannes, Partch, Amram, Ste. Croix, Zappa, Nikhil Bannerjee, Natacha Atlas, the Clancy Brothers, Barnes and Barnes.

Movies:

The Seventh Seal, Days and Nights in the Forest, Alexander Nevsky, 8 1/2, Hour of the Wolf, Freaks, Les Yeux Sans Visage, Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende Eines Konigs, Silent Movie, Satin Rouge, Gods and Generals, Master and Commander.

Television:

Captain Video, Science Fiction Theater, Tales of Fu Manchu, Checkmate, Have Gun Will Travel, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Creature Feature, Chiller Theater, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Benny Hill, Monty Python, The Adams Chronicles, Brideshead Revisited, The Pallisers, Night Court, Taxi, Fawlty Towers, Law and Order.

Books:

Moby-Dick, Faust, The Last Puritan, The Divine Comedy, The Cantos, A Dance to the Music of Time, Prometheus Rising, The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, Carmilla, The Philosophers' Stone, The Great Return, Rationalism in Politics, The Theology of Wonder, Focusing, Don't Shoot the Dog, A World Lost, The Magic Mountain, The Sickness Unto Death, The Crock of Gold, The Candle of Vision, The Luminous Trail, The Meaning of the Creative Act, Homo Viator, Ideas Have Consequences, Adventures of Ideas, The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

Heroes:

Goethe, Abhishiktananda, Rebindranath Tagore, Badshah Khan, John Burroughs, Rufus Jones, Nicholas Roerich, Lev Gillet