The Religious Pícaro
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Providence, Rhode Island, United Kingdom |
| Interests | World languages, monarchy, alternate history, apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, travel, the American Southwest, Eastern Orthodox icons, ancient Egypt |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Donnie Darko, The Endless Summer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Forbidden Planet, Koyaanisqatsi, THX-1138, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, The Year of Living Dangerously |
| Favorite music | Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Anglican chant, Znameny chant, Ravi Shankar, CCR, CSN&Y, surf music, Once to Every Man and Nation |
| Favorite books | A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca (Sir Richard Francis Burton), The Glass Harmonica (aka The Book of Weird) (Barbara Ninde Byfield), Os Lusiadas (Luis Vaz de Camoes), Foreigner (CJ Cherryh), Hadrian VII (Frederick Rolfe/Baron Corvo), Khaled (F Marion Crawford), the Horatio Hornblower books (CS Forester), The Magus (John Fowles), the Joe Leaphorn/ Jim Chee series (Tony Hillerman); The Garden of Allah (Robert Smythe Hichens), The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), The Year of Living Dangerously (CJ Koch), A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr), The Zero Stone & the Solar Queen series etc. (Andre Norton - her sci fi, not her fantasy), the Jack Aubrey series (Patrick O'Brian), Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake), Mensagem (Fernando Pessoa), On the Loose (Terry and Renny Russell), The Diamond Age or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Neal Stephenson), the Nero Wolfe series; (Rex Stout), A Wrinkle in the Skin (John Christopher), The Chrysalids (or anything else by John Wyndham), Gaudy Night (and anything else by Dorothy L Sayers), World Book Encyclopedia, (1974) |
Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:
With a blowtorch