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    Dear God, no.

    TNP can name five Robert Browning poems.

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    Nope, sorry. Not sure I can even name one.

    TNP will provide a link to his or her favorite Robert Browning poem.

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    Sure: http://www.bartleby.com/246/654.html

    TNP has been to St. Louis.

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    Yes, as a child. I vaguely remember visiting the Gateway Arch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Arch.

    TNP has been up in the Gateway Arch.

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    No, I never been through that part of the country at all.

    TNP thinks about Minnesota is about the most East in the United States he or she thinks would be a good place to relocate. If there was gold in them hills, that is.

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    No, I've thought now and then about moving to the Virginia or North Carolina hill country when I retire.

    TNP loves the hill country.

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    Actually, yeah, I was just thinking the other day about that sort of terrain up around that bit kind of near Pittsburgh. Pretty country, I would say, and I did say it a few days ago. The glacial hills give an admirable texture that extends, at least in my mind, all the way out to the Rockies that is pretty neat. Check me if I'm wrong, but that's about one of the best things about this country, beautiful land that's good to look at too.

    TNP likes living in a place where it's good to look at.

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    Absolutely. Nice scenery is always a plus (as it happens, I grew up in a little Ohio River town just an hour west of Pittsburgh, in the Appalachian foothills).

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    It's nice. Very mellow.

    TNP thinks Raven's Progressive Matrices are a really neat idea, but isn't sure if he or she is particularly outstanding at them.

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    I remember seeing those on IQ and aptitude tests when I was young. Kinda neat; I think I did all right but not brilliantly with them.

    TNP has visited Tokyo.

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    Funny you should mention that -- that was a little topic for one of my internal monologue's rants the other day. No, I have not.

    TNP either likes Tokyo from personal experience or would like to go there.

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    Haven't been, but would like to. Sounds like an amazing city.

    TNP has been to Moscow.

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    No, but I think it would be fun to spend some time thereabouts. What with the heavy drinking, and women who are both loose and expert at music. And tame bears which are good for snacking on too.

    TNP would like to see the Trojan ruins.

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    Oh, definitely. I have some interest in archeology.

    TNP would hate to be a Greek hoplite back in the day.

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    Interesting question. I was just thinking about nose-rings earlier today. So, yeah, yes, that would cut into my time of grooming my pre-pubescent mates and finding words that rhyme.

    TNP thinks noserings/studs are not for people of the Western cultures.

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    Eh. I don't care for them, and know of nobody whose appearance would be improved by them, but it's a free country.

    TNP knows somebody with at least five body piercings.

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    No, not at all.

    TNP thinks Martha Argerich's performance of Scarlatti's Sonata in D minor, K. 141 is unnecessarily show-off-y, but nonetheless impressive.

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    Absolutely. She just sits down and right away, boom, it's off to the races!:

    TNP thinks this is one of J.S. Bach's best:

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    I dunno, my ear is probably not up to discriminating among great works.

    TNP is rather fond of P.D.Q. Bach.

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    Eh. In small doses, I guess.

    TNP thinks Donald Trump just might become the next President.

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    No, I really don't think so.

    TNP is almost looking forward to a Trump victory -- because of all the jokes that can be made at others' expense.

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    was the Argerich I was thinking of, but I'm grateful that on the concert stage Martha still hammed it up on the same piece. Granted, it's a hell of a piece -- basically, it's hard to play.

    Argerich is one of the few non-lesbian women whom I know to probably proudly trumpet her strong forearms.

    For the rubes at home: K141 dos not need strength, but it requires a hell of lot of stamina. Like a boogie.

    ETA this has been bothering me: yeah, in fact, this lady or wife or whatever, she did have both ears, plus nose, plus navel. Makes you think, don't it? That's four right there, and she was just a stupid Jew. I'm sure most people know a bunch of stupid Jews -- hell, five piercings doesn't sound outrageous for a dude -- few in each ear, whatever.
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    Almost kinda sorta, but not really. I love my country too much for that.

    TNP has traveled to at least five other countries in his or her life.

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    Yeah, I guess. For me, my brain cannot have more than a few countries at once, but true to form, I kind of find them both despicable. And yet I like having my country the USA to come back to. Nothing is ever going to be as nice a sight to me as seeing the Hudson and that improbable pile of rubble across it. Still makes me fucking happy, and I'm not even from NY/NJ originally. Whatever they call it, imprinting at an impressionable age -- I'm still always going to like it, and it's like a nice feeling, coming in off a jet, taking a bus from Newark, whatever. Those rocks, those rivers. Makes me happy.

    TNP has, if he or she is a musical sort, seen recently a key signature in Cb major. Or, if not, something equivalent -- it's extremely strange, almost ridiculous. The Cb in my case came up looking at Bill Bolcolm's "Seabiscuit Rag," and, trust me, it's pretty fucking weird. It's like seeing a sentence put in ebonics or something.

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    Having read this, I guess not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-flat_major

    TNP likes "Rise" by Katy Perry:

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    Goddammit. That is fucking about the worst fucking thing I ever fucking seen or heard. Do you understand now why people drink? It's to get shit like that out of their fucking heads.

    TNP thinks good old is a good palette-cleanser.

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    Yes - I like both of those songs, actually (but tell me, Jizz, how do you really feel about that Katy Perry song?).

    TNP likes Sia's "Cheap Thrills" just a little more:

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    Yeah, that's a little better. I still hate it, but, hey, what can I say? I don't have the golden ears, and I'm no zen master, man.

    TNP really has to make an extraordinary effort to listen to chamber music or recital repertoire featuring violin or cello. Because he or she just plain doesn't care for it.

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    Not at all. I love chamber music.

    TNP has seen Angel Heart (1987) in the past year.

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    Yeah, I love chamber music as well in general -- string quartets and piano quintets or trios. Something about too much violin or cello out front just makes my teeth start to grind, though. Not that there isn't exceptional music composed that features solo time for those instruments, even concertos with full orchestra. Still not as bad as the harpsichord, but close -- and I like the harpsichord (well, you know, maybe "healthy respect"). Come on, those classical violinists and cellists -- so smug, think they're so fancy!

    Probably longer than that it's been -- at least four or five years.

    TNP thinks it would be pretty cool to acquire a pet tortoise -- a little one. You know, for companionship and mutual, one hopes, amusement.

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    Could be. My sisters and I had a box turtle when I was a kid, and that was kinda neat.

    TNP had an unusual pet as a child.

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    Not really. Some rabbits, a rat, and a cat. I think my sister had a little bird, which was stupid. My rat was not very awesome, because I was too lazy to make him do tricks.

    TNP thinks gangs of children playing on schoolyards sound like Hitler youth, and should be discouraged.

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    No and no, in my experience.

    TNP has been to Virginia in the past year.

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    No, I have not, but it's very possible I'll end up down south for some job or other in the next decade.

    TNP thinks the anti-hero, Uncle Ethan, of the movie *The Searchers* is one of the more understandable characters drawn in fiction from the nineteenth century to present. I don't speak to his or her simplicity or motives, just that the way that the character is drawn is an exemplary lesson in how to make the character's intentions plain.

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    Haven't seen the movie, although I've heard good things about it.

    TNP has cried in a movie that most people wouldn't consider tear-worthy.

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    Yeah, I guess. I teared up a little at the recent documentary *Hitchcock/Truffaut* first time I saw it, and also at *Five Easy Pieces.* Since I've seen those more recently, nothing. I bet it's a glandular problem, to snip a bit of dialogue from *The 400 Blows*.

    TNP thinks the guy in the movie *Frenzy*'s character in *Frenzy* reminds him or her of someone he or she knows or knows of.

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    Hmm. He looks just a little like a guy who was a friend of my parents - can't even remember his name. He also kinda looks like the dad on The Brady Bunch, now that I think about it. Maybe it's the hair?

    TNP regularly watched The Brady Bunch growing up.

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    Eh, I'm probably a typical Gen-Xer who grew up with seeing the odd repeats and whatever of *TBB*, along with all the other dregs of TV at that time, what with reruns being all that was on, while all the new dregs was being made.

    So, sure, I've seen my share of the Brady Bunch. And let me tell you now, laddie, Robert Reid is no Donald Trump, for that I'm for sure telling you now, laddie.

    TNP has not seen a single episode of "Game of Thrones" (or insert similarly popular genre TV show, like *Walking Dead* or *Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman* or one of those).

    TNP can think of a better "gritty reboot" than *Blue Velvet* of *Rear Window*, and will name names.
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    Yes, Hitchcock's Notorious might suit that purpose.

    TNP once had a crush on Ingrid Bergman.

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    No, I've seen *Under Capricorn* and that kind of took some of the shine off for me.

    TNP thinks Lauren Bacall is more "handsome" than "a striking beauty." Good actress, though, who did good movies!

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    Absolutely. She had a remarkable charisma and charm even though she wasn't "beautiful," as such. Love the picture of her clowning around with Harry Truman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren...Piano-1945.jpg

    TNP has heard a dog bark in the past three hours.

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    Hell no, thank God.

    TNP has seen a coyote wandering around a city street in broad daylight.

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    I think I did, from a distance a few months ago, but can't be sure. Might have been a dog. There have been coyote sightings around here, though.

    TNP has been within 500 feet of a bear in the wild.

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    Not that I'm aware of. Supposedly they make lots of noise, and are sort of big, so doubtful I could have missed one so close.

    TNP has extremely good, Sterling Archer-like levels of "situational awareness," most of the time.

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    Yeah, I do OK. Haven't been mugged yet.

    TNP watched the Trump-Clinton debate on Sun. night, and was appalled.

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    No, watched the ball game, thank god.

    TNP will be watching the ALCS.

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    Off and on. Glad to see Cleveland getting so far!

    TNP was pleasantly surprised when he or she last visited Cleveland.

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    True: I was very pleased when Hilary Clinton visited Cleveland, and I hope she enjoyed some of the wonderful marine cuisine that can be found among the lakes.

    TNP has smelled BO so bad (from someone else) it made him or her consider changing positions recently.

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    Not recently, but it's happened in the past year, yes.

    TNP has washed his or her hands with great relief recently.

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    Yep. Every time one gets a chance to have a good wash and a brush up is just great. Super.

    TNP wonders if an isolated tribe of she-women, self-propoagating, would bother to groom themselves to man's standards. Or if it would be some gross basketball team.

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