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Paulo the Perplexed

The Priest and the Beast

About Me

Ejaculate of late-colonial froth, postcolonially sprung upon sundry shores both African and European, with polyglottal effect and a disregard for vices of the national sort. Lives thus far encompassed include: earnest, blue-eyed seminarian - prone to humanistic displacement and le vice Anglais; sometime student and lecturer in topics philosophical and metaphysical in assorted institutions of putative 'Higher' learning (Strasbourg, King's College London, Manchester, Warwick, Derby, SOAS, SEITE); devoted conjugate - fatefully strayed 'til sundered; public entertainer; and now, writing and lecturing while moonlighting as a servant of the people and learning the tango.

My Interests

philosophy, late antiquity, the study of religions, the Weimar afterglow, languages (I speak 9, and hope not to leave it at that), vintage, burlesque, good shoes, good clothes, tango, picnics, icons, dramatic tension, over-the-top arguments, outrage, good food, good wine, debauchery, dancing

Music:

tom waits, the tigerlillies, squirrel nut zippers, baghdaddies, cherry-poppin' daddies, leonard cohen, gogol bordello, recoil, electro shite, iamx, sneaker pimps, nick cave, the cure, claude chalhoub, palestrina, fado, tango, flamenco, crazy gypsy music, klezmer, the good old 80s

Movies:

in the mood for love, jamon jamon, all about my mother, the life of others, mephisto, Takeshi Kitano, Almodovar, la reine margot, dead man

Television:

the mighty boosh, battlestar galactica, aeon flux (original animations)

Books:

charles bukowski, leonard cohen, clement of alexandria, edmond jabès, henrik ibsen, isaac bashevis singer, jacques derrida, james joyce, jorge luis borges, ludwig feuerbach, magic realism, michel de montaigne, haruki murakami, nietzsche, origen, plato, peter nàdas, thomas pynchon, ryszard kapuscinski, salman rushdie, antal szerb, william butler yeats, evelyn waugh