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Rob J Kennedy

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Born

in Sydney, Australia

Website

https://robjkennedy.bandcamp.com/

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Genre

Nonfiction, Music, Philosophy

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Patrick White, Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Simone de Beauvoir

Member Since

January 2011

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Arts writer and composer - that’s it.

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The Social Contract

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The Composer: Making Music: The Process and the Artist

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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

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