User:Almost-instinct



'My contributions might suggest that I'm no longer terribly active on WP, but I do look in every day to keep an eye on vandalism, and to respond to questions about my contributions. I occasionally create short new BLP articles and, more often, shove what is intended to be a helpful oar into talk page discussions'


 * almost-instinct joined Wikipedia because a-i thought the Philip Larkin page ought not look like this
 * almost-instinct is proud to have help the Philip Larkin look more like this
 * almost-instinct felt a sense of pride once a-i had finished typing in this
 * almost-instinct dreams of a whole series of Larkin pages, but has the sense to realise that a-i isn't the editor for the job
 * almost-instinct very rarely edits in the field in which a-i is truly knowledgeable; is there an obverse to ignorance is bliss?
 * almost-instinct thinks that be bold need not mean be ignorant and hasty [this is a cute example]

I do not exercise myself in great matters : which are too high for me But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is even as a weaned child. O Israel, trust in the Lord : from this time forth for evermore."
 * "''Lord, I am not high-minded : I have no proud looks.


 * almost-instinct has a sense of irony; do you?

almost-instinct's sandbox'.'

I created the following handful of pages:
 * 1) Stanford Olsen - American Rossini tenor
 * 2) Grant Doyle (baritone) - young Australian baritone
 * 3) Gary Lehman - American Heldentenor
 * 4) Artur Ruciński - young Polish baritone
 * 5) Nicholas Sharratt - young British tenor
 * 6) Anna Karenina (Hamilton) - forgotten modern opera
 * 7) La romanziera e l'uomo nero - forgotten Donizetti opera
 * 8) Neil Howlett - British Verdi baritone
 * 9) Greek (play) - the source for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera
 * 10) Anna Christy - American soprano
 * 11) Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
 * 12) The North Ship - early volume of Larkin's poetry
 * 13) Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)
 * 14) Collected Poems – 1988 edition (Philip Larkin)
 * 15) List of poems by Philip Larkin