AMA

Alright baw/bloke, lay it out for us.

What is your unique life experience that we would find interesting?

I've already seen some of this pieced together from the other threads we've been in, but from someone else's perspective (who has no idea what you've already said), give us a teaser.

Pasted from another thread regarding C. S. Lewis:

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I used to sit in his favorite reading chair while sipping sherry once a fortnight in the chaplain’s office of Magdalene College. Then we would climb through the window on top of the roof and smoke cigarettes overlooking the master’s house where Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to the queen) lived.

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How did you end up as a regular in the chaplain’s office?

My buddy is a Prof there, and he introduced us, since they were classmates at Oxford. My buddy’s father in law was Lewis’s chaplain and friend at Cambridge.

But we’d discuss philosophy, theology, surfing, and gin. He was a good conversationalist so we picked each others brains. The chaplain is a great friend now and currently a priest in Cornwall.

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My buddy is a Prof there

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He and I were involved in getting Jordan Peterson to the university, and inviting for a semester Fellowship, but was later sabotaged by the student union.

My close (and very influential) family member moved across the country to attend law school at Bama 20 years ago. I converted to SEC then.

What's something we would never think to eat (or drink), but is, in fact, delicious?

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the filmmaker I referenced early

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You also mentioned Terrence Malick, I think.

That baw taught philosophy at MIT.

And translated Heidegger.

Haha no. But I was on an train from Beijing to Xian drinking/smoking in the club car all night into the morning. And this random Chinese guy who joined us kept calling me and my friends, “Prince Harry” or “Prince William”. He only knew about 5 English words. He got so drunk and passed out eventually.

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Finished the complete works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I had assumed Alyosha comes from The Brothers, no?

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Is it weird that I want to know more about these two stories, both with equal enthusiasm?

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It was 5 days of filming, 12 hours per day. We had the same schedule for scenes, breakfast/lunch/dinner...etc. He saw a girl in the background, and would chat her up when there was nothing to do. Between filming there is so much downtime, waiting, and just standing around. Anyway, he said he was going to invite her out, but they never went out, but instead went back to his hotel. He proceeds to brag about how he "shagged her all night" (Wes Bentley, Zachery Ty Bryan, Louis Mandylor, and some others were present). He sounded like a middle schooler the whole time, which matched his personality at that point. He was kind of a doofus.

I won't go into much into the second story just because it would give too much away. All is to say, it took place at Gonville and Caius (pronounced like "keys"), and I represented the one of the oldest student union groups in the world.