Creative, sensitive, simpatico, affectionate, sensual, gentle, demonstrative, good-looking, fit, unpretentious intellectual, 5'7" 162 lbs., 56 but looks 40s (owing, perhaps, to attempts to stay in shape but possibly also to good genes and red wine), good company and possessing a sense of humor, seeks warm, intelligent, cultivated, slender, attractive boon companion, 35–55, to share my life and interests, and in whose life and interests I would like to share. I am an editor and not insufferable Francophile (I own a studio apartment in the south of France) fond of the visual arts, literature, the cinema, classical and serious contemporary music, jazz, and world music, as well as foreign language/culture, and, of course, mud wrestling. I’d like my match to be emotionally available and physically affectionate. My politics are to the left of liberal; if there were such a party in the U.S., I’d likely be a Social Democrat. It goes without saying I’d have a hard time with a Republican, let alone a Tea Partier. . . . "Only connect." ... "Comme la vie est lente / Et comme l'espérance est violente." (No photo, no response; it's only fair.)

I'm trying ever so hard not to live it to the fullest. It just wears me out.

I'm good with words, spoken or written. I also do a wicked imitation of Flipper.

are my deformities. ... Geez, I don't know, I've never asked anyone, and I don't think about it all that much.

Let's talk current--my favorites are legion. Recent reads:

Tahar ben Jelloun: "Cette aveuglante absence de lumiére" and "La nuit sacrée" (This Blinding Absence of Light and The Sacred Night); C. P. Cavafy: "Collected Poems," trans. Daniel Mendelsohn; David Harvey: "A Brief History of Neoliberalism"; Edward P. Jones: "All Aunt Hagar's Children"; Irène Némirovsky: "Suite Française"; Stéphane Hessel: "Indignez-Vous"; Edouard Levé: "Suicide"; Alex Ross: "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Music of the Twentieth Century," "Listen to This"; Graham Green: "The Third Man"; Emile Zola: "Thérèse Raquin"; Gilles Deleuze: "Negotiations"; David Harvey: "The Condition of Postmodernity"; Stendhal: "La Chartreuse de Parme"; Elaine Pagels: "Revelation: Visions Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation"; John Pope-Hennessy: "The Piero Della Francesco Trail"; Sarah Bakewell: "How to Live: or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty-One Attempts at an Answer"; Jared Diamond: "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"; Rebecca Rischin: "For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet"; Metropolitan Museum, "Velazquez Rediscovered"; Seamus Heaney, trans.: "Beowulf"; Metropolitan Museum: Walter Liedtke, " 'The Milkmaid,' by Johannes Vermeer"; Holly Flora: "Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting"; Metropolitan Museum: "Antonella da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master"; Reinhard Steiner: "Egon Schiele, 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist"; Samuel Beckett: "Worstward Ho!"

Working on: Jean Baudrillard: "Selected Writings"; André Gide: "Les Faux-Monnayeurs"; Aimé Césaire: "Cahier d'un retour au pays natale"; James Shapiro: "A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599"; F. Robert Rodman, M.D.: "Winnicott: Life and Work"

Next up: Jameson: "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," "The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act"; Coetzee: "Elizabeth Costello": Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"; José Saramago: "The Double" and "Blindness"; Jared Diamond: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"; Susan Sontag: "Regarding the Pain of Others" and "Against Interpretation and Other Essays"; Italo Svevo: "Zeno's Conscience"; Di Lampedusa: The Leopard; Peter Taylor: "In the Tennessee Country; Manuel de Landa: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History"; Edward P. Jones: "The Known World"; Lawrence Rainey, ed.: "The Annotated Waste Land, with Eliot's Contemporary Prose"; Robert Alter, trans.: Genesis

Now on my iPod/stereo:

Beethoven: late quartets, late piano sonatas; Martha Argerich: debut recital; Sonny Rollins: "Saxophone Colossus"; William Byrd: Renaissance masses; Christina Branco: "Corpo Illuminado" (Portuguese fado); Dastan Ensemble: "Through Eternity: Homage to Molavi (Rumi)" (Persian classical); Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: "Concerts en Paris"; Bill Evans: "Portrait in Jazz" and "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"; Juillard Quartet: Ravel, Debussy and Dutilleux quartets; Frederic Rzewski: "New and Recent Works"; Ravel: "Chansons madécasses"; Messiaen: "Quartet for the End of Time" and "Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus."

Cinema:

"The Leopard"; "Water"; "I've Loved You So Long"; "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"; "Belle du Jour"; "Belle Toujours"; "The Wages of Fear"; "The Return of Martin Guerre"; "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"; "The Dead"; "Aguirre, Wrath of God"; "Some Like It Hot"; "The Marriage of Maria Braun"; "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul"; "Downfall"; "Run Lola Run"; "The White Ribbon"; "Hidden"; "Into Great Silence"; "Mouchette"; "Diary of a Country Priest"; "400 Blows"; "The Lives of Others"; "Three Colors: Red, White, and Blue"; "The Decalogue"; "House of Sand and Fog"; "The Music Room"; "The Apu Trilogy"; "The Promise"; "The Child"; "The Son"; "A Boy with a Bike"; "Jean de Florette"; "Manon of the Spring"; "Army of Shadows"; "Autumn Sonata"; "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe"; "Amarcord"; "Mafioso"; "Gomorra"; "The Conformist"; "Red Desert"; "Aventura"; "The Passenger"; "Illustrious Corpses"; "On the Waterfront"; "The Battle of Algiers"; " The Mill and the Cross"; "Bringing Up Baby"; "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; "Gloria"; "Woman under the Influence"; "Streetcar Named Desire"; "Children of Men"; "Pan's Labyrinth"; "Nights of Cabiria"; "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"; "Old Joy"; "Away from Her"; "The Sweet Hereafter"; "You Can Count on Me"; "Trainspotting": "Naked"; "Topsy-Turvy": "Secrets and Lies"; "Happy-Go-Lucky"; "The Thin Blue Line"; "The Fog of War"; "Gerard Richter Painting"; "Mysteries of Lisbon"; "Nine Queens"; "Maria Full of Grace"; "Alamar"; "Talk to Her"; "All about My Mother"; "A Separation"; "The Artist Is Present"; "Amour"; "Populaire"; "Tu seras mon fils"

Food:

Give me an ethnic restaurant anytime. I have learned quite a lot about wine over the years, and though I can't say I qualify as a connoisseur, I know what I like.

TV:

I turned in my cable box a while back.

art, books, inner life, ardor, imagination, music

aesthetics, income inequality, social justice, politics, ideas, this planet, the nightmare of psoriasis (I don't have it)

a great date.

you think there's a good chance of connecting.

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