David Burkam:  

David is from Delaware, Ohio. David's schools include Hayes High School. David works(ed) at University Of Michigan, Jacobson's. Music David likes includes Katri Ervamaa, cellist, Andrew Pelletier. Books David likes include Thomas Hardy, Mary Renault, W. Somerset Maugham. Movies David likes include Enchanted April, A Single Man, Longtime Companion. TV shows David likes include Men Of A Certain Age, Mad Men, Bananas In Pajamas. One of David's favorite quotes is:""If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime." [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, you write? Good Lord, we should be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." [From a letter by Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak...Expand for more