TEXAS VICTORIAN'S NOBLE MANSEARCH
for
FRIENDSHIP, FRATERNITY, FIDELITY

"Lesser men will always criticize what they do not understand."
[Oscar Wilde]

WHAT IS SOUGHT?

+ A bright, inventive, honest fellow for acquaintance. (To some degree, a dashing male conversant with the terms 'chautauqua' and 'lyceum'.)

WHAT IS OFFERED?

TOPIC:
Atypical bachelor seeks dashing, kindhearted, _single_ homosexual male for progressive gentle acquaintance with a view to ardent friendship. (No interest here in mere casual 'physical encounters'.)

ABSTRACT:
Genuine, complex, polite, unstructured. Acquisitive, assertive ... romantic, selective, urbane. Nice home, manicured yards, loving housekeeper, china/crystal/silver, sweet dog. Established in business, reluctant executive. Amiable, supportive, true, challenging, cherishes proven friends, champions noble endeavor. Daring yet sensible, sociable yet solitary, imaginative, contemplative, staid. Makes good coffee, spells well, chatty. Somewhat learned, sufficiently urbane, manly yet sensitive, pragmatic, tactile, spiritual, curious. Suffers cute fools and endures weak prose, ignorant of calculus and sports trivia. Politically disinterested, socially correct, scholarly directed, purposefully inclined.

TEDIUM:
A solitary contemplative who labors as a commercial realty managing partner. Uses network [two Athlon 1.5ghz/640kb] with both cable modem [big fan] and DSL, and finds time to pursue his lifelong interest in genealogical research as a historiographer. Consults as a curative title analyst with legal divisions of oil and gas corporations concerned with ROW (right-of-way) title services, although, today, only very occasionally.

LIKES:
Iced coffee, dawn, homelife, Sunday NYTimes, rainy weekends, vanilla everything, orderly chaos, moonlight, laughter, public radio, brute candor, good Merlot, sleep, romance. [Arcane interests include, Almanach de Gotha, Alma-Tadema, chat, coffee, Chopin, clutter, lapsang souchong, Maugham, Pepys, Telemann, Texana, and general trivia.]

ADMIRES:
Simplicity, reclusive readers, honor, spontaneity, handsome minds, discipline, courage, insight, intelligence with common sense.

MISSES:
Shared popcorn, hugs that matter, shopping for dog toys, movie-going, healthy debate, walks, whispers, caring. SEEKS: Openness, chemistry, trust, contentment, serenity (and other such gay fantasies).

CORPUS:
All that aside, I'd like to find a man with a strong interest in Arts & Letters; a decent guy who readily accepts both what he is and isn't and cheerfully continues to forge onward through the fog. Ultimately, we should hopefully be anxious to together exchange individual preferences for shared pleasures.

Here we find one very single complex/distracted, masculine, stocky/hairy/fit/cleanshaven, articulate in-charge businessman, relatively-stable and established --- 44, 5'11", 250-290 [chocolate addiction], short silvergrey hair/military cut, brown eyes --- ISO friendship and, possibly, in due course, companionship leading to true romance. I offer friendship, fraternity and fidelity to a prospective sensitive and honest fellow traveler. Content, totally healthy and DDF, a social drinker, and a conservative liberal. On the other hand, brutishness notwithstanding, this guy doesn't know the slightest thing about sports but would be an eager learner with a patient instructor. This is one serious so-called tough-guy who works hard and enjoys the few occasions where humor and wit together provide comic relief (television sorts such as Niles, Hyacinth, and Mrs. Slocombe are three who can get a chuckle out of me). While stacks of folders and piles of paper threaten to overwhelm, major interests are morning coffee, too-much Internet, Italian and Indian food, art, antiques, and books. Delicious food is a joy, but I'm not worth a tinker's damn as a great cook (although a handy helper), and, accordingly, in my refrigerators, one would find lots of Diet Coke, filtered water, smoked chicken, steamed broccoli, and not much more. ("Good in the kitchen" would be nice to hear.) Live very comfortably in the central city, keep crazy hours, enjoy contemplative solitude and a high degree of personal accomplishment together with reading, classical music, extensive correspondence and busy career. While most would ask, "How big is it?," the only size quotient which might continually interest me is that of one's vocabulary! Not available for casual encounters, sex-as-release, or other similar defenses against traditional dating method forms. Civic and cultural organizations are good for social diversion in San Antonio, but one gets tired of group efforts as an alternative to merely being alone and staying active. Too, sexual discrimination is hardly one of my male traits --- if you look like Walt Whitman it's okay, but please have a wealth of experiences to relate. Be yourself and tell the truth -- lies are hard to recall when put to the wall. If you have read thus far, my thanks are extended. But, a few words about the cognitive process. I'm seeking a gentle man who can do more than grunt once for "yes" and twice for "no". It would be nice to share life with and both share/enjoy the attention of another curious-minded man.

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