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Here's what I wrote on the "new user log" when I began editing Wikipedia in a big way (in May 2005):
My primary areas of interest (at least of knowledgeable interest) are theology and Church history , English literature (up to about 1900), private-eye stories , Romance languages , and various bits of American and European history and culture. I've been using Wikipedia for a few years, and just recently started fixing typos and adding bits of information.
I am a deacon of the Eastern Orthodox Church ("Deacon John Saturus"), currently working on an M. A. in theology, and am the King of Talossa .
Please feel free to talk with me.
Beliefs, dogmatic and quirky [ edit ]
I believe :
Enthusiams [ edit ]
I am vastly enthusiastic , and frequently bore my friends, about
The glorious all-holy ever-virgin lady Theotokos more-spacious-than-the-heavens, Saint Perpetua Martyr and her five companions (including my patron Saint Saturus ), Saint Patrick equal-to-the-Apostles, the Desert Fathers , the Empress Saint Theodora ; and the Roman Catholic saints Saint Francis and Saint Clare , Saint Catherine of Siena , Saint Joan of Arc (dearest, sweetest), Saint Teresa of Ávila , Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , Middle English ; linguistics , grammar , etymology ; Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition, unabridged ; The Oxford English Dictionary
The Song of Songs
The Vulgate , the Church Fathers (especially Saint Augustine , Saint Leo the Great , Saint Gregory the Great , Saint Gregory Palamas ); typology , the (old) Missale Romanum and Breviarium Romanum
Saint John Climacus and The Ladder of Divine Ascent , The Philokalia
Geoffrey Chaucer , John Gower , Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight , Le Morte d'Arthur
Dante (the greatest poet), his Divina Commedia (the greatest poem), Ludovico Ariosto and Orlando Furioso , Torquato Tasso and Gerusalemme Liberata
Heraldry
The Book of Common Prayer , "William Shakespeare" (the other greatest poet), Edmund Spenser and The Faerie Queene , the King James Bible
De imitatione Christi , Le pratique de la présence de Dieu , Port-Royal
Charles I the royal martyr, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars , the Cavaliers
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Dr. Johnson , Edmund Burke , George Washington (the greatest President, the greatest American), The Constitution of the United States , Fisher Ames
Jane Austen (the greatest novelist), Anthony Trollope (the other greatest novelist), Margaret Oliphant , "sensation" novels, Charlotte Mary Yonge , The Princess and the Goblin (the best children's book), Robert Louis Stevenson , "Q" , Stanley J. Weyman , Rudyard Kipling
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky , Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy , Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Tractarians , John Henry Newman
Thomas Babington Macaulay , Francis Parkman , William Hickling Prescott , Henry Adams
Baseball , backgammon , "Dirty nasty filthy hearts ", Diplomacy , Tock
Sandro Botticelli , Edward Burne-Jones , William Morris , John William Waterhouse , Evelyn de Morgan , William Adolphe Bouguereau
Winnie-the-Pooh , G. K. Chesterton , Charles Williams , J. R. R. Tolkien (whose The Lord of the Rings is the greatest literary work of the 20th century)
London , Los Angeles , Firenze , Roma , Venexia
Gregorian plainsong , Renaissance polyphony , Bach (heaven-inspired to write the Goldberg Variations , the Musikalisches Opfer , the Concerto for Two Violins in d minor , and so much more), Mozart , Beethoven ; Fats Waller , Benny Goodman , Ella Fitzgerald ; Dixieland
The Holy Royal Martyrs Saint Nicholas the Tsar, Saint Alexandra the Tsarina, the Grand Duchesses Saint Olga , Saint Tatiana , Saint Maria , and Saint Anastasia , and the Tsarevich Saint Alexei ; also the Holy Martyr Saint Elizabeth Fyodorovna , Princess and Grand Duchess
Raymond Chandler (the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century), P. G. Wodehouse , Talbot Mundy , John D. MacDonald , Robertson Davies , Patrick O'Brian , Tim Powers , Lois McMaster Bujold , A Song of Ice and Fire , hardboiled fiction, science fiction
Humphrey Bogart (the greatest screen actor), Grace Kelly (the most beautiful screen actress); Alfred Hitchcock
Casablanca , The Big Sleep , film noir
Dr. Russell Kirk
Buffy the Vampire Slayer , The Wire , Veronica Mars , Arrested Development , Breaking Bad , Game of Thrones
The Kingdom of Talossa
Articles I've started [ edit ]
Articles I've contributed to in ways that strike me as reasonably important [ edit ]