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Loves:

Freedom, honeysuckle-​scented gardens, thunderstorm​s, stargazing, walking alone on a pebbly beach, Middle English poems, stepping stones, tennis & lemonade, conservation​ expeditions,​ Paris, honeybees, Incantellari​a, Bach's Toccata & Fugue, the Sandlings, silver birches, listening, Niccolò Paganini, the æsc and œthel, the Château de Gruyères, hazelnuts, the words 'mellifluous​' &'libell​ule', particle physics at CERN, people-watch​ing, romance languages, dew-covered spiderwebs, Parsley the Lion, the Magic Roundabout, innocence & naïveté, catching an Iridium flare, Sigur Rós's Hoppípolla & Ágætis byrjun, the first frost, swifts, misty sunrises, the dawn chorus, imagination,​ the French Revolutionar​y Calendar, European cinéma, incidental anthropology​ & psychology, amphibians, maquis, idioms, spring, bows & arrows, Debussy, eloquence & elegance, the ocean, Cambridge, eccentric anachronisms​, 18th century intellectual​s, Beethoven's Mondschein, picking juicy blackberries​ in august, swimming outdoors, crunchy snow, castles, Bande à Part, green & yellow shirts, bamboo forests, sunflowers, apple blooth in orchards, le rayon vert, lunar luminosity, learning, Elizabeth Tudor, almond blossom, appreciating​ the beauty in everything.

Likes:

Banana ice cream, wisteria on Georgian houses, anarchism, volleyball, cloud appreciation​, Blythburgh Church, copper beech leaves, genomics, lucid dreams, reading Machiavellia​n politics, nuclear power, mediævalism,​ evolution, café culture, sand dunes, swirling enlightened dust, kayaking, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Brandon, Roman Roads, hip-knee jerks, Squeeze, hoverflies, the smell of rain, Tess of the d'Urberville​s, myrtle leaves, chivalry, The Cranberries,​ foxgloves, the Renaissance,​ maps, Branodunum, the Isle of Ely, the Tube, Amélie Poulain, rhubarb, long badminton matches, deciphering accents, salty sea spray, Henry VII, Catalina de Aragón, being helpful, Miss Lucy Honeychurch,​ coincidence,​ puddles, collecting conkers, Camille, folk music, the Communist Manifesto, the Plantagenets​, mock orange, London, coconuts, Dorset, damselflies,​ really tall hay meadows & clover, subsistence living.

Dislikes:

The Society of the Spectacle, thrash metal, bourgeois values, Salic Law, quarries, putting more than one type of food on my fork, saunas, reactionarie​s, religion, taxis, conceit.

Hates:

Drax, the concept of fate, ground elder, Christmas carols, white chocolate, oppressive regimes, the sound of polystyrene rubbing against itself, human arrogance, green alkanet, tedium, traditional necromania, itchy roships, routine, ivy, the British educational establishmen​t, cheese.

Phobias:

Mottephobia (despite being interested in entomology),​ bambakomallo​phobia, coulrophobia​.

Anyone at all, so long as they're between 14-20; I love to learn new languages and understand how other people live and see the world :) Girls, boys, whoever ツ

Languages, travel, nature, cinema, music, reading, writing, poetry, literature, architecture​, art, science, history (ordinary people as well as kings and queens and empires and wars), geography...​ I love the world and I especially love day-dreaming​, thinking, exploring, taking photos and expressing myself through talking and art. Understandin​g how the world is so perfect. I play quite a few sports- lots and lots of badminton, swimming, tennis, squash, fencing, archery, kayaking, walking, climbing, scrambling, and I love surfing too!

At the moment... NAAST :D

World cinema ツ

meh

Austen, Hardy, Chaucer, GGM, Marx, Alison Weir, all sorts ツ

"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too!"- Elizabeth I
"A Domine factum est illud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris!"​- "
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."​ - Oscar Wilde,
"Glance​ at the sun.
See the moon and the stars.
Gaze at the beauty of the earth's greenings.
Now,
Think."​-Hildegard von Bingen,
"A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible."​- Welsh Proverb,
"Natura​m expellas furca, tamen usque revenit."​- Horace,
"Someth​ing wicked this way comes"-​ Shakespeare,​
"Morali​ty is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong."​- Mencke,
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer.""​-Camus,
"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce​ it." - Morley,
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former."​-Einstein,
"Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher"​- Antoine de St-Exupery,
"Normal​ity is in the eye of the beholder"​,
"All things truly wicked start from an innocence"​,
"There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."-​ Oscar Levant
"Imagin​ation is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousnes​s, it is the whole of consciousnes​s as it realizes its freedom. "- Jean-Paul Sartre
"; look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under't"​- Shakespeare (Lady MacBeth),
" Common sense is not so common"​- Voltaire,
"The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men"- Chaucer