User:Atorpen

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In the wikiworld, I'm nobody of consequence, which is quite nice. I'm also very much a newbie, so please, be nice, if at all possible. I don't respond well to brusque rudeness; if you take the time to say something, then say it well.

This page is mostly for me to keep track of what I'm doing. If you want to have fun, go the Hades article and remove all the darned looping redirects with actual articles. Dispater is not Hades. Neither is Eubuleus, or Pluto (god), really. Plus, looping redirects are just a really bad idea. See redirect

Random thought of the day: threatening to delete a page is the best way to ensure its survival. See maroon, Cave painting, and oh, just about anything.

Useful pages
Manual of Style (biographies), Utilities, Manual of Style, Boilerplate text, Guide to Layout, Weeding Wild Wikipedia, Contributing FAQ, FAQ.

Articles I'm working on or have started

 * Pakistan
 * Kazakhstan
 * Abai Kunanbaev, Kurmangazy, dombra


 * Literature of all sorts
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * American literature
 * Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
 * Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Chaim Potok, Raymond Carver
 * English literature (English novel, English poetry, English drama)
 * Piers Plowman, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Philip Larkin, Philip Sidney
 * Socialist realism, Magical realism
 * Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Lermontov, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Isaac Babel
 * Misc.: mythology in literature, Sara Suleri, Nadine Gordimer, William Butler Yeats, Virgil, Dante


 * Russian history
 * Russian Revolution, Novodevichy Cemetery, samizdat


 * Music
 * Pearl Jam, R.E.M., U2


 * United States prison population, Great chain of being, Alice in Wonderland syndrome
 * land survey
 * stub articles: brownfields, Joseph Pulitzer, New Economic Policy, maroon (its not dead. yay!), Erving Goffman, Gustave Caillebotte, Wings, macropsia, Levi Eshkol, Klaus Kinski