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Pablo Neruda--Twenty Love poems and a Song of Despair (Neruda is a master of powerful imagery and emotions) Elizabeth Barrett Browning--Sonnets from the Portuguese Ovid--The Art of Love Catullus--Poems My favorites include: Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens...

I love history, but have trouble finding others who do.

Feel free to add as many details as you like. I love interacting with other history buffs.

Jujitsu. It's a very practical style of martial art, and has it's own aesthetic value.

Jujitsu. It's a very practical style of martial art, and has it's own aesthetic value.

Especially if they are family members. I try to just smile and shrug it off, but it's very frustrating at times. I really have to bite my lip or contain my anger sometimes. The following are actual comments. "The Earth isn't that old. No more than 10,000 years." "We never went to the moon...

How long did it take you to acquire proficiency? Did you begin with "readers" or start with original texts?

For me it's Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Rilke, Keats, Baudelaire, John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Byron.

When she comes tell her you've been too busy to clean up, could she please help?

I enjoy reading about almost any battle or commander: Civil wars (US, Russian, English, etc), Franco-Prussian, Peloponnesian, Crimean, Hundred Years War, Thirty Years War, WW I & II, Succession wars, etc. etc.

Why would you recommend them?

James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" is a tour de force of various styles. Each chapter is written differently from the rest. Of course, Joyce was a virtuoso of the English language. William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" consists of four distinct narrative structures.