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Steppenwolf_1948 · 01-18-2010, 01:34 PM

Nice to meet you all. I am from the Netherlands and I like to read. From fantasy novels to scientific handbooks. My job is with a European programme where I am a life sciences project officer. I was trained as a biologist and of course my hobbies include growing all kinds of things, from carnivorous plants and orchids (think Orchid Fever and the Orchid Thief) to fish and butterflies (think Nabokov). I like to travel, to fish (think Hemingway), photography, people, languages and if I had lived in an earlier age, I would have loved to be a Homo Universalis.

And I like to READ. Favourites include Annie Dillard, C.L. Moore, Lord Dunsany, Jan Kjaerstad and many others. If you like to know more just ask . . . . .

Rolf

PS (oh yes, the nickname stems from
- the Herman Hesse novel Der Steppewolf
- the sixties band with their hit "Born to be WIld"
- and of course the sheer power and beauty of the animal itself.

Rolf is a modern form of the old Norsk name Hrolf, which in itself means wolf. Ironically enough I am not a blond nordic giant, but a Dutch/Indonesian mix locally known as "Indo")

01-18-2010, 01:34 PM	#1
Steppenwolf_1948 experienced reader Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: The Hague, Netherlands Device: NONE	Please allow me to introduce myself Nice to meet you all. I am from the Netherlands and I like to read. From fantasy novels to scientific handbooks. My job is with a European programme where I am a life sciences project officer. I was trained as a biologist and of course my hobbies include growing all kinds of things, from carnivorous plants and orchids (think Orchid Fever and the Orchid Thief) to fish and butterflies (think Nabokov). I like to travel, to fish (think Hemingway), photography, people, languages and if I had lived in an earlier age, I would have loved to be a Homo Universalis. And I like to READ. Favourites include Annie Dillard, C.L. Moore, Lord Dunsany, Jan Kjaerstad and many others. If you like to know more just ask . . . . . Rolf PS (oh yes, the nickname stems from - the Herman Hesse novel Der Steppewolf - the sixties band with their hit "Born to be WIld" - and of course the sheer power and beauty of the animal itself. Rolf is a modern form of the old Norsk name Hrolf, which in itself means wolf. Ironically enough I am not a blond nordic giant, but a Dutch/Indonesian mix locally known as "Indo")