Amittai Aviram:
CLASS OF 1974
John Jay High SchoolClass of 1974
Cross river, NY
Amittai's Story
Amittai is from Goldens Bridge, New York. He is in a domestic partnership with Octavio Zaya. His schools include John Jay High School. He later attended Columbia University (Comparative Literature, English), Columbia University (Computer Science). He works(ed) at The MathWorks, Google, Google.
Amittai's interests include Reading, Beach, Architecture. Music he likes includes 91.5FM WUML, Lowell, Charlie Parker - Verve Records. Books he likes include 3 Lies About Brooklyn, The One state Condition, The Little Prince. Movies he likes include The Angels' Share, L'Amour, A Late Quartet.
One of Amittai's favorite quotes is:"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
(Woody Allen)
It is required you do awake your faith.
(William Shakespeare, _The Winter's Tale_ [Paulina to Leontes].)
If I don't have myself, whom do I have? Yet if I am all alone, who am I? And if not now, when?
(Rabbi Hillel.)
Mr. Worthing! Rise from that semirecumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
(Oscar Wilde, _The Importance of Being Earnest_ [Lady Bracknell to John Worthing].)
And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
(WIlliam Shakespeare, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ [Titania to Bottom (with an ass's head)].)
Richard Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds.
(Mark Twain.)
Ramón Fernández, tell me if you know
Why, when the singing ended and we turned
Toward the town, tell why the glassy lights,
The lights of the fishing boats at anchor there
As the night descended, tilting in the air,
Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,
Fixing emblazoned zones and firey poles,
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Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
(Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West.")
Like a dark rabbi, I
Observed, when young, the nature of mankind,
In lordly study. Every day, I found
Man proved a gobbet in my mincing world.
Like a rose rabbi, later, I pursued,
And still pursue, the origin and course
Of love, but until now I never knew
That fluttering things have so distinct a shade.
(Wallace Stevens, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle.")
"Là tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme, et volupté."
(Charles Baudelaire, "L'Invitation au Voyage")
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken, und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, den gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen. Was ist mir geschehen? --dachte er. Es war kein Traum. (Franz Kafka, _Die Verwandlung_)
Quando fiam uti chelidon, ut tacere desinam?
(Pervigilium Veneris)
Les suffrances de la névrose et de la psychose sont pour nous l'école des passions de l'âme ...
(Jacques Lacan, "Le Stade du miroir"".
More about Amittai:"Dum loquimur fugerit invida
Aetas.
I like to get around on foot, by bike, or by train. I prefer cities (and the open country to visit) over suburbs. I love intense conversations about ideas. I love classical music, great architecture, lyric poetry, and other forms of art.".
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