User:Richard Gillard

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Hello

My name is Richard and I am new user to Wikipedia. I have been using the Website as an encyclopedia for some time. However, I have only recently started adding any edits of my own.

My edits to Wikipedia have been minor ones.

My e-mail address, should anyone wish to contact me, is:

richardgillard322@btinternet.com

My web address if:

http://uk.geocities.com/richardgillard322@btinternet.com/

I should warn you that I do not know how much longer I will have either of these addresses. I have been a very foolish and dissolute boy over the last few years. As a result I lost my job (Potential Employers - Please note) and, subsequently, lost a lovely flat in Highgate. I now live deep in the Suburbs of Bedford (for which I am profoundly unsuited, being of a much more urban and urbane frame of mind). More importantly I am no longer in receipt of a salary and cannot say with any degree of certainty how much longer I will be able to pay my telephone bill. Should I stop paying it my access to my e-mail acount will be cut off. Under such circumstances it seems exceedingly unlikely that BT will continue to host my website for me.

My interests and passions vary. They depend to a large extent on how well I am doing at any moment in time (Please see the Wikipedia reference to Maslow's Triangle for further details on this point). However, when I am feeling good about myself, such as was the case in the days when I knew where the next pay cheque was coming from. My interests are (or have been) as follows:

The cinema - My favourite movie of all time being "The Devils" by Ken Russell

Drama and The Theatre: Some of my favourite dramatists being: Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Michael Frayn.

Art - I have in my time been a member / friend at: The Royal Academy, The Tate, The Hayward Gallery and the V & A.

Reading - Everything from Dante's Inferno to Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares, via Ovid, Virgil, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and George Orwell.

Travelling - Some of my favourite cities being: London, Barcelona, Paris, Dublin, Rome, Edinburgh and New York.

Comparative Religion - I particularly enjoy rumaging through the bible for the the sexy bits (such as: The Song of Solomon) or for passages of sex and violence, which are by no means sexy, such as Judges Chapter 19. I also enjoy biblical scholarship, when I come across any such which is not a contradiction in terms. For example: Richard Friedman's book: Who Wrote the Bible?

Philosophy - I cannot understand most of it but occassionally I come across someone who says something I am interested in, such a Benedict Spinoza or The Marquis De Sade (If one can really refer to the latter's work as philosophy). Also, and I feel I should take some pains to point this out, when I refer to De Sade's philosophy, I am talking only about when he discusses whether one should worship God or nature (perhaps failing to notice that they are one and the same). With regard to the remainder of De Sade's work the man should have been locked up! Whoops I am forgetting - he was!

Anyway, I think that is enough of an introduction for now.

Yours Truly

Richard