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BarryW

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  1. Heh! You take me right back to the time I was reading Ninety-Three on my daily lunch hours at my summer job (way back when); when I got to the climax, I literally couldn't put the book down and ended up "extending" my lunch hour to within seconds of getting in trouble! I have to say that Toilers of the Sea has been my only Hugo disappointment so far, although the ending was really powerful, even by Hugovian standards. Barry
  2. I'm an art historian. At present I'm working as a curator in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, employed on a project to renovate the gallery of Islamic art. These days I do lots of research and writing of labels, database entries, and so forth. I'm also in demand as a lecturer, and have almost finished a (bloody exhausting) stint guest-teaching one term of a colleague's course at the University of London. When my contract here is up in August 2006, I plan to move to Istanbul to be with my wife, who teaches there. Can't say I ever thought about being an actuary (though my dad was one)! Barry Wood
  3. If I remember correctly, Keith Windschuttle has a masterly evisceration of Foucault in his book The Killing of History. I had so much Foucault shoved down my throat in grad school that Windschuttle's chapter really was a lifesaver. Barry Wood
  4. I did three lectures titled "Ayn Rand's Aesthetics in Historical Perspective" at the OCON 2004 conference in Virginia. Sad to say they're not available on tape or I'd suggest you buy a copy. I am writing a chapter on much the same topic for a book on Ayn Rand that ARI is bringing out (hopefully) this year. Thanks for the welcome, Barry
  5. Hello to all, I am new to the forum, if not to Objectivism – I discovered Ayn Rand in 1986. Despite my enthusiasm for Objectivism I haven't really moved in Objectivist circles for some time now, although I did give a series of lectures at the last summer conference, and a forum like this seems to be a good way to interact with other students of the greatest philosophy ever penned. By way of background: I'm an art historian and amateur aesthetician, trained (Harvard Ph.D.) in Islamic art and architecture and currently working at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In addition to art I am especially keen on languages, the more "exotic" and out-of-the-way the better (currently obsessed with Georgian). Hope to show up on a forum or two sometime soon. In the meantime I'll try to think of a cool signature. Barry Wood
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