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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 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 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 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 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 London , Los Angeles , Firenze , Roma , Venexia Gregorian plainsong , Renaissance polyphony , Bach (heaven-inspired to write the Goldberg Variations Musikalisches Opfer 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 ] 
