20th Century Chinese history, A.I., Andrei Tarkovsky, Franz Kafka, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Islay whiskey, Jacques Derrida, Jasmine Silver Needle Imperial tea, Jean Baudrillard, Medieval Europe and the Crusades, Michel Foucault, Mississippi John Hurt, Pembrokeshire, Posthumanism, Scottish/Irish fiddle music, Shetland and Orkney, Ted Hughes, the Nordic Sagas, the Picts, Tweed hats, Ulysses, Will Self