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DL wrote:

>Hello everybody!
>
>I'd like to know about EP taste:
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>1. His preferred meal.(one or more).
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Acorn meal.

>1.1. His preferred desert.
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The Gobi.

>2. His preferred wine.
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Chianti from Machiavelli Estates

>3. His preferred tee
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I don't think he actually liked golf.

>4. His preferred sports.
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Tennis

>5. His preferred musical instrument.
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Double Bass

>6. His preferred perfum.
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Essence of the Essence.

>7. His preferred painter.
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Wyndham Lewis

>8. His preferred music.
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Confucian Odes and Ancient Music, with a hint of the Troubadours

>8.1. His preferred musical author.
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William Atheling

>9. His preferred poet.
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Dante, Bunting, Homer, Smart, Browning, Daniel, Cavalcante.. who knows?
 He never said so, but I think it was Chaucer.

>10. His preferred novelist.
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Flaubert or James or Ford

>11. His preferred philosopher.
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Confucius

>12. His preferred sculptor
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Gaudier

>13. His preferred historian.
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  The one that left blanks for the things he didn't know.

>14. His preferred architect.
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The one who built the roof like scales of fish in the sun

>15. His preferred political leader.
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Pisistratus or a knave

>16. His preferred economist.
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Douglas

>17. His preferred city.
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Rapallo

>18. His preferred country.
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Italy

>19. His preferred  woman (blond, red, brunette)
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No preference.

>20. His preferred domestic animal.
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Cat, if a cat is really domestic

>21. His preferred tree.
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Oak tree, never plane tree

>22. His preferred flower.
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Any on wet, black boughs

>23. His preferred religion.
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Paganism

>24. His preferred god.
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Apollo.

>25. His preferred political system.
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Totalitarianism

>26. His preferred economic system.
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Socialism

>27. His preferred US Founding Father]
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Jefferson and/or Adams

>28. His preferred book
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The one he spent the most time with was "The Cantos of Ezra Pound"

>29. His preferred picture.
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Photo of the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound or faces in a crowd or ivory
dipping in silver

>30. His preferred opera.
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Cavalcanti

>
>Thank you for your kindly answers.
>
I don't know how kindly they are, but you're welcome to them.

>
>Adolfo
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