Miscellany

I like to make lists. These are a selection of my favourites, in some of these fields.

Paintings

• Olga Picasso — Pablo Picasso
• Reflection (Self-Portrait) — Lucian Freud
• The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine — Parmigianino, 1527–31
• Portrait du fils de l’artiste — Paul Cézanne
• Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid — Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1753
• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose — John Singer Sargent, 1885–86
• The Prison Courtyard — Vincent van Gogh, 1890
• Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil — Bartolomé Bermejo
• Sewing the Sail — Joaquín Sorolla, 1896
• Girl in Bed — Lucian Freud, 1952
• Dido Building Carthage — J. M. W. Turner, 1815
• Lilette parmi les philodendrons — Sam Szafran, 2009

Books

• A Spy in the House of Love — Anaïs Nin
• The Trial — Franz Kafka
• Molloy — Samuel Beckett
• Malone Dies — Samuel Beckett
• The Unnamable — Samuel Beckett
• The Castle — Franz Kafka
• The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
• In the Penal Colony — Franz Kafka
• Before the Law — Franz Kafka
• Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe
• Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
• The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson
• Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare
• The Birthday Party — Harold Pinter
• The Examination — Harold Pinter
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Ningen Shikkaku — Osamu Dazai
• The Tunnel — Ernesto Sábato
• Dubliners — James Joyce
• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage — Lord Byron
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
• The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
• The Room — Harold Pinter
• 神鵰俠侶 — 金庸
• 笑傲江湖 — 金庸
• Swann’s Way — Marcel Proust
• 靈山 — 高行健
• Récoltes et Semailles — Alexander Grothendieck
• Lord of the Flies — William Golding
• The Aleph — Jorge Luis Borges
• The Circular Ruins — Jorge Luis Borges
• Manon Lescaut — Abbé Prévost
• Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
• The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot
• Four Quartets — T. S. Eliot
• La Figlia Che Piange — T. S. Eliot
• Murder in the Cathedral — T. S. Eliot
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — T. S. Eliot
• To a Young Poet — Mahmoud Darwish
• Paradise Lost — John Milton

Films

• The Fifth Element — Luc Besson
• Thirst — Park Chan-wook
• The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
• Memento — Christopher Nolan
• Mulholland Drive — David Lynch
• Inception — Christopher Nolan
• Minority Report — Steven Spielberg
• Brazil — Terry Gilliam
• Ring (Ringu) — Hideo Nakata
• The Orphanage — J. A. Bayona
• Ran — Akira Kurosawa
• Kill Bill — Quentin Tarantino
• City on Fire — Ringo Lam
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Steven Spielberg
• Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie — Osamu Dezaki
• Ghost in the Shell — Mamoru Oshii
• Gattaca — Andrew Niccol
• Donnie Darko — Richard Kelly
• The Blackcoat’s Daughter — Osgood Perkins

Games

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Final Fantasy VII
• Dark Souls
• Stellar Blade
• Hollow Knight
• StarCraft
• StarCraft: Brood War
• StarCraft II
• God of War Ragnarök
• Darksiders
• Warcraft III
• Age of Empires III
• Little Nightmares II
• Bayonetta 2
• Ninja Gaiden II
• Inside
• Limbo
• Assassin’s Creed II
• Trine 2
• The Legend of Sword and Fairy 4 (仙剑奇侠传四)
• Devil May Cry 3
• Devil May Cry 4
• Devil May Cry 5

Mathematics

• Floer homology — Floer
• Donaldson’s diagonalization theorem — Donaldson
• Quillen’s theorem on complex cobordism and formal group laws — Quillen
• Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch — Grothendieck / Borel–Serre
• KAM theorem — Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser
• Taubes’s SW = Gr theorem — Taubes
• Weil II — Deligne
• Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture — Deligne
• Topological 4-manifolds via intersection forms — Freedman
• Adams conjecture via étale homotopy — Quillen
• Atiyah–Singer via heat kernels — Patodi
• 2-to-2 Games conjecture — Khot–Minzer–Safra
• Pontryagin–Thom construction — Pontryagin–Thom
• Hodge–de Rham degeneration mod p — Deligne–Illusie
• Jones polynomial via Chern–Simons theory — Witten
• PCP theorem via expander gap amplification — Dinur

Judo throws

• uchi-mata/hane-goshi — 内股／跳腰
• ōsoto-gari — 大外刈
• harai-goshi — 払腰
• tai-otoshi — 体落
• kouchi-gari — 小内刈

Food I Make

• Aglio e Olio
• Caponata
• Caramelized Shallot Pasta
• Carbonara
• Chicken Piccata
• French Omelette
• Garlic Butter Shrimp
• Grilled Chicken
• Gyūdon
• Japanese Curry
• Kimchi Shin Ramyun with Cheese
• Miso-Glazed Salmon
• Nikujaga
• Ochazuke
• Ragù Pasta
• Ratatouille
• Sautéed Spinach
• Scallion–Cucumber Salad
• Scrambled Eggs
• Shakshuka
• Shrimp Scampi
• Soboro
• Spinach Goma-ae
• Teriyaki Chicken
• Tomato Pasta Salad
• Walnut–Zucchini Pasta
• White-Wine Poached Salmon