Name: Nicola in Latin, Sydney when ice skating, and Mint to be facetious
Sign: Leo
Age: old enough to know when to shut up, but young enough to be interesting
Gender: You will figure it out.
Religion: I used to be a devout atheist and have recently converted to agnosticism.
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Greetings, V.V. here. You’ve come to the right place, even if you got here by accidental link-hopping. I love to write--well, duh. Mostly I like short fiction. Check out my short stories and occasional odd novel and rarer poem. Most of my works--if I may use the word--have a historical flavor to them. I am a huge history buff. I like nearly all periods from the past, especially Classical Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century in Europe. At the moment, I have a thing for France and Austria. And yes! I do research the era in which my stories take place. However, if you discover a glaring historical inaccuracy or, worse, an anachronism, please let me know so I do not make a literary moron of myself.
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Because I know you are dying to know even more about me, and to add a few more minutes to your unofficial time quota of reading profiles, I am providing more stats to make this bio longer:
Favorites:
Colors: green, purple, and gold (in that order)
Food: petites madelines
Drink: lime-flower tea
Book: this is hard … I have so many—Count of Monte Cristo, Pride and Prejudice, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Phantom of the Opera (book, remember), The Black Tulip, Iliad, Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Lives of the Ten Orators, The Little Prince, The Last Duel, Le Chanson de Raoul de Cambrai, Scaramouche, Catcher in the Rye, The D'Artagnan Romances, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Atonement, The Awakening, Bonjour Trestesse, Ben-Hur, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Prince, Gerfaut, Zibeline, Manon Lescaut, Camille, Nana, Love Story, Prince of Bohemia, Venus in Furs, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, Decameron, the later Heptameron, Dracula, The Bloody Chamber, The Chronocles of Narnia, Tales of the Night, A Distant Mirror, and a whole lot more
Other Literary Productions: The Mask of the Red Death, The Duel (Conrad), The Coward, Virtue in the Ballet, The Woman and the Cat, The Snow Queen, The Snow Child, A White Heron, Hommage a Bournonville, My Last Duchess, The Sphinx, The Waste Land, Tiger, Tiger, Carpe Diem, The Raven, The Eaten Heart, and La Dame de Vergy.
Author: same story but here goes—Balzac, Maupassant, Dickens, Dumas (both father and son), Hans Christian Anderson, Sabatini, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Plutarch, Julie Garwood, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Ib Michael, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and stuff of that league
Movies: Titanic, Gladiator, Ben-Hur, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gone With the Wind, Beauty and the Beast, Moulin Rouge, Cutting Edge, etc.
Classical Composer: Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Roosini, Vivaldi, and Bach
Music Group/Artist: Celine Dion, Dido, Hoobastank, Nickelback, The Killers, Il Divo, Metallica, Abba, Natalie Imbruglia, Josh Groban, Evanescence, Roxette, and that lot
Song: at the moment, like right now, "In Love with a Girl"--Gavin Degraw.
"Silver-white winters that melt into spring ... these are a few of my favorite random things"" emails, cool mouse pads, Comic Sands MS, Champagne glasses, Michelangelo’s David, garden pavilions, lighthouses, On the Beautiful Blue Danube (waltz), playlists to set the mood, wind chimes, snow, marble fireplaces, sea side mansions, yachts, swivel chairs, cute guys, European cities, Greek people, fortune cookies, money, cats, amber jewelry, diamonds, velvet, black leather jackets, Prada backpacks, tassels, decorative cigarette lighters (but not cigarettes), fountain pens, fancy hotel lounges, and those plushy chairs at Starbucks
Dislikes: xenophobics, narrow-mindedness, human stupidity, dum stereotypes, spam, badly written books, dead links, infomercials, jerks, fast food, bordom … bugs, spiders, standardized tests, and my total inability to pay for law school after under grad ... Cripes!
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Currently reading: Reading! Reading? You are kidding, right? As if I have time. ... secretly turns the page of Le Grand Meaulnes, The Debacle, or Tower of Secrets at any one moment
Currently listening to: piano solo from A Beautiful Mind soundtrack
Currently located in: the alcove in my room
Currently want: 200,000 to pay for one of the HYP Ivy Leagues ... I got in!
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A Story in Quotes:
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult, and the most intellectual.”—Oscar Wilde
“And who knows but that God, beyond our guess, sits weaving worlds out of loneliness.”—Arthur Symons from “The Loom of Dreams”
“All we care about is what happens out there in infinity, not back here at the beginning of time.”—calculus teacher
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”—the fox to the Little Prince
“Sophie dear! Don’t die! Stay alive for our children!”—Archduke Franz Ferdinand
“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”—the fox to the Little Prince
“You don’t believe in the God you want to, and I won’t believe in the God I want to. Is that a deal?”—Yossarian from Catch-22
“Religion is intellectual suicide.”--Kierkegard (I think)
Review! Please, please, I’ll love you forever and beyond that. I’ll start a religion after you. I’ll have a little temple and fountain consecrated to your eternal glory … but only if you review. I do return the favor. So read, enjoy, and write me a line. Thank you much. Ciao, darling.
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