all these questions, about the minutiae of the what. so tedious. and probably misleading.
isn't the why at least as important (and far more interesting)? i'm sure it's far more revealing.
just be frank, if you can, it makes for easier breathing.

i used to be a pharmacist,
but am now, somewhat surprisingly, in the process of writing a book.

*thinking
*colour
*straightforwardness

Bible (but only in its original language)
Oranges are not the only fruit

anything by Fabio Biondi
or Claudio Arrau or Oistrakh comes to mind.
plz no Barenboim and no Glenn Gould, will take Britney Spears any day over these.
while we're at it none of the more recent french philosophers no Foucault, nor Lacan. in their stead Oscar Wilde's The spirit of man (under socialism) and Russell's Conquest of happiness or Praise of idleness.

Some of my favourite quotes are
*youth is wasted on the young
Bernard Shaw
*sex is the last refuge of the miserable
Quentin Crisp
*abominable to the wicked is an honest man, and abominable to the righteous is a villain
Proverbs

how some people seem to have lost the use of their heart, living a life of hand tricks and mind exercises, while a dog, my dog is full of love.

at home

pfff.
that which is truely private, can hardly be articulated.