Mathias
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""Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!" Nikos Kazantzakis"
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68 years old
GREEN VALLEY, Arizona
United States
Last Login: 10/10/2008
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Mathias's Interests
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| General | Art Deco; Gaudi; art in general; collectibles; psychotherapy, et al; brisket on rye; being a good father; craving a new York City malted made with Horlick's malt; Krishnamurti; photography; travel; meeting people with a wild sense of humor and who, like Kafka, realize that "The meaning of life is that it stops." | | Music | Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending; The Russian masters, Borodin,Tschaikovsky, et al; Ravel; Debussy; the Impressionists and the Romantics; Tracy Nelson (Who?); Beatles; some Gershwin; the Doors; anything that clings to the soul and heart. music that i can't recover from. | | Movies | endless! citizen kane, the black narcissus; singin' in the rain; the thief of bagdad; song of the south; the magnificent ambersons; bitter rice; la dolce vita; the third man; the last of the mohicans; rosebud; the cockatoo in kane; sabu in the thief of bagdad; the thighs of mangano in bitter rice (omigod!); the head of the Statue of Liberty, decapitated and resting, on a strange beach; Monty Clift in The Search, and forever on. | | Television | The great Richard Boone in Have Gun Will Travel; first two seasons of Shatner's Star trek; Sid Caesar Show; westerns from the thirties on Saturday mornings; Flash Gordon, especially the Clay People sequences; Hopalong Cassidy reruns; Autry and Buster Crabbe serials.At this point, except for the terrific History Channel and one or two more
stations, I see TV as pollution -- if you doubt that, imagine a week-end with Nancy Grace on top of you and Hannity on top of that. | | Books | Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus; Canetti, Crowds and Power; Krishnamurti, The Flight of the Eagle; Buber, I and Thou; Stendahl, The Red and the Black;Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars; Eiseley, The Immense Journey; Freud, Moses and Monotheism; Moliere, The Misanthrope; Sartre, The Flies; The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea; The Last Temptation of Christ; Man and His Gods; and Report to Greco. | | Heroes | I don't believe in heroes; I feel --I know -- that I don't require a leader to live my life. Question authority is all I need as I wend my way through the morass which is our species. |
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | New York City | | Religion: | Jewish | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | Retired psychotherapist/teacher |
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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Author of The i Tetralogy, historical fiction on the Holocaust; Down to a Sunless Sea, collected short stories out in December 2007
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About me:
Teacher and psychotherapist, I hold masters degrees in secondary education and social work from Queens College of the City University of New York and Stony Brook University. For more than thirty years I taught English and social studies in New York secondary schools.
An analytically trained and insight-oriented psychotherapist, I have incorporated my abiding interest in Eastern thought into my life and my work, leading workshops on experiential and psycho-spiritual approaches to inner awareness.
Listed in Who's Who in America, 56th Edition, Who's Who Among American Teachers, A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, and the International Authors Who's Who, my work emphasizes creativity, spiritual wisdom, self-awareness, transcendence, and meaning. My short fiction has appeared in Jewish Currents, Pig Iron Press, and Skywriters, among other magazines. My nonfiction articles have appeared in the New York Times, Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, and Publishers Marketing Association Newsletter. In 2005, the Society of Southwestern Authors honored me with a first-place award for personal/essay memoir.
Within a two-week span, I wrote i, the first novella of my i Tetralogy. The next three volumes, I Am Gunther, Gunther's Lament, and Gunther Redux followed in quick succession, fulfilling a compelling, psychologically imaginative need on my part to fathom my own personal sense of Shoah.
At the center of the apocalyptic nightmare of the Holocaust is most everything we need know about our nature -- and our gods, I have concluded. And so the i Tetralogy aspires to reflect the shadow of that stark reality that happened more than sixty years ago but perturbs us to this day.
Google my name or i Tetralogy to find reviews and interviews with me.
In January Down to a Sunless Sea, a collection of my short stories, will be published; recently the Tetralogy was awarded the Allbooks Reviews Editor's Choice Award for best historical fiction of 2007.
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Who I'd like to meet:
College instructors and secondary teachers of Holocaust studies who might be inclined to consider my book -- or selected chapters -- for inclusion in their curricula; Holocaust survivors (I give a free copy to such individuals); serious young people; individuals who do not obsess over ipods, blackberrys, strawberries, raspberries, ibox; those who do not wear watches; and those who march to the sound of a different drummer and especially those who question authority. I like to engage the deconditioned, and those who know, as Bertrand Russell wrote, that religion is the dragon at the gate --and has to be slain. Having read Krishnamurti is a real plus.
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