The Board (March 2006)
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Name: Piotr Spyra
In the society since 20.11.2003 (the day he came up with the idea of founding
one)
Position: Founding Father, President 2004-2005, 2005-2006
Hobby: Mountain hiking, ecclesiastical architecture
Area of academic interest: Mediaeval and Victorian Poetry
Favourite romantic: John Keats
Favourite Victorian: Alfred Tennyson
Poetry or Drama: Poetry!!!
I recommend reading: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, John Gardner's Grendel
Writer that should never have written anything: Ian McEwan
Literary character just like you: Rev. Abraham Adams
Century You'd like to live in: 19th
Your lucky symbol: Blood-red cherries in white snow
Does "bob and wheel" ring a bell: St. Catherine had a wheel but who's Bob? |
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Name: Wit Pietrzak
In the society since 6.10.2004
Position: Vice-President 2005-2006, later to become the Chief himself
Hobby: Biking into trees
Area of academic interest: Poetry, W. B. Yeats in particular
Favourite romantic: Coleridge
Favourite Victorian: Tennyson
Poetry or Drama: Poetry
I recommend reading: London Fields by M. Amis
Writer that should never have written anything: Every one added something
Literary character just like you: Moses E. Herzog
Century You'd like to live in: Here and now sounds alluring
Your lucky symbol: Gyres
Does "bob and wheel" ring a bell: Yes |
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Name: Katarzyna Ojrzyńska
In the society since 21.11.2003
Position: Vice-President 2004-2005
Hobby: Mountains, preferably not flooded by tourists
Area of academic interest: Celtic influences in English literature
Favourite romantic: William Blake
Favourite victorian: Charles Dickens
Poetry or Drama: Drama
I recommend reading: Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Bruno Shultz (and
Beowulf in the original;)
Writer that should never have written anything: George Elliot
Literary character just like you: Margarita
Century you'd like to live in: 20th
Your lucky symbol: Uroboros
Does "bob and wheel" ring a bell: Simon and Garfunkel, Tom and Jerry, Thelma
and Louise but Bob and Wheel...??? ( I know some Bobs but no Wheels) ;-b |
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Name: Karolina Ławska
In the society since 14.04.2004
Position: Treasurer 2005-2006 (and later)
Hobby: Cowboying, including horse-trekking in the Bieszczady Mountains
Area of academic interest: Vast, however not defined precisely
Favourite romantic: William Blake
Favourite Victorian: Emily Bronte
Poetry or Drama: Poetry
I recommend reading: Denis Diderot - Jacques le Fataliste et son Maitre
Writer that should never have written anything: Mr. Gombrowicz - not
digestable in any language
Literary character just like you: Scarlett O'Hara
Century You'd like to live in: 1st before the invention of civilization
Your lucky symbol: Triskel
Does "bob and wheel" ring a bell: Not only rings but jingles like Father
Christmas' bells. Oh yeah, unfortunately, that guy prefers a sledge to good old
wheels |
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Name: Tomasz Wrzesień
In the society since 07.04.2004
Position: Chancellor 2004-2005, 2005-2006, Webmaster and the author of this
website
Hobby: Good books above all
Area of academic interest: Translation
Favourite romantic: Well... Me, Myself & I :)
Favourite Victorian: Nope
Poetry or Drama: Hmm... Dramatic Poetry? Poetic Drama? Could be!
I recommend reading: Shakespeare's Works, Frankenstein, Philip K. Dick
Writer that should never have written anything: No clue yet
Literary character just like you: You don't want to know...
Century You'd like to live in: 19th
Your lucky symbol: Imagine the symbol of Mars. That's pretty much it.
Does "bob and wheel" ring a bell: Bob the Builder and his wheeltruck, that's
obvious! |
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Name: Agata Witczak
In the society since 24.04.2004
Position: Drama section chairperson
Hobby: Film, theatre, dance
Area of academic interest: Modern British drama, especially the so-called "new
brutalism"- in-yer-face theatre
Favourite romantic: William Blake
Favourite victorian: Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde (rather anti-victorians...)
Poetry or Drama: Drama (but these two are often subtly interwoven)
I recommend reading: Russian literature (in general) + "Dangerous Liaisons" by
Laclos, Orwell's "1984" + John Irving and obviously Kane's dramas:)
Writer that should never have written anything: Every literary voice is
valuable, even if just on the basis of "how not to write"
Literary character just like you: A mixture of all the characters from "Othello"
and sometimes a little bit of each of Kane's characters
Century you'd like to live in: I'd like to have a go in each of these
Your lucky symbol: I don't believe in the magic of symbols |
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