User:Atorpen

Warning:

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

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

• 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

Magical realism

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Isaac Babel

Misc.:

William Butler Yeats, Virgil, Dante

Russian Revolution, Novodevichy Cemetery, samizdat

• Music

R.E.M., U2

• United States prison population, Great chain of being, Alice in Wonderland syndrome
• land survey
• stub articles:
  Wings, macropsia, Levi Eshkol, Klaus Kinski