Who am I? - Good question. Let me know if you divine the answer.
Perhaps the 'likes' I have listed opposite will provide an outline definition of who I am. For reference, this list
comprises what first came to mind. Later, 'when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood', I may well bring
to mind equally deserving entries, ones that, for the moment, I have overlooked.
Ask me WHEN am I, because I am drawn to the mysteries of time - for much the same reasons as J.W.Dunne
was.
Time the concealer of distant doings.
There is the question of the very nature of time itself. Time
may appear to operate as a uni-directional fluid within which every human transaction must operate, but some bizarre
events show that whatever the underlying mechanism, it does not actually forbid brief reversals of time - such
as when an outcome is known before the event, as in a precognitive dream, or in the oft-reported sense
of forboding prior to some unforseen catastrophe.
Then there is the time-dilation effect which, although apparently describable
and quantifyable within Einsteinian mathematics, remains largely a mind-blowing conundrum outside it.
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An intruder sustains damage in air
combat over Bulgaria.
- from the wonderful
aviation art of Marii Tchernev
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My hobbies and interests .
A major interest of mine is aircraft, especially aircraft of WWII and the Spanish
civil war that immediately preceded it.
Because of my many experiences with psi phenomena, especially those associated
with dreams and dreaming, I have developed a strong interest in that too. I have just begun the 18th volume of my dream
journals.
Included within my broad interest in history are: human origins, ancient
history, pre-history, the pre-Celtic peoples of the British Isles, obscure tivia (like the word whose homophone is its antonym)
and my own genealogy. My maternal family tree currently extends through 15 generations, but it goes more sideways
than back and includes over 3500 individuals.
Another abiding interest is coincidence and synchronicity - both of which occur with disturbing
frequency and specificity in my life.
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Favorites
Here's a list of some of my favorite movies:
The Name of the Rose; The Small Back Room; Fun with Dick and Jane;
A Man for all Seasons; Dune; Four Weddings and a Funeral; So Long at the Fair; To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch's 1942
version); Brother John; Westworld; Woman in the Window; The Third Man; Hooper; The Entertainer; Meatballs; The Cold Light
of Day; The Dead Zone.
Some of my favorite, or most admired, actors:
Sir Laurence Olivier
Sidney Poitier
David Farrar
John Gregson
James Robertson Justice
Dirk Bogarde
James Garner
Jurgen Prochnow
Gilbert Roland
George Segal
Nigel Davenport
Pat O'Brien
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Peter Finch
William Bendix
Alan Wheatley
Nigel Patrick
Robert Donat
Ed O'Neill
Alfred Burke
Richard Pasco
Kevin Kline
. . . and actresses:
Beryl Reid
Irene Handl
Jennifer O'Neill
Shawnee Smith
Gwen Watford
Olivia Hussey
Some of my favourite, or most admired, singers:
Neil Young;
Carly Simon;
Leoni Page;
Crystal Gayle;
Richard Tauber;
Steve Winwood;
Carole King;
Jim Crocé
Esther Ofarim;
Anne Shelton;
Al Bowley;
Janet Baker;
Kathleen Ferrier;
Peter Dawson.
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