This user is interested in Stoicism.

This user knows that G. W. F. Hegel was a genius.

This user's favorite pre-Socratic is Heraclitus.

This user is influenced by Confucius.

This user agrees with Larry Sanger's views on NPOV, but encourages you to form your own opinion after carefully reading his article.

This user thinks that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic.

This user strongly believes that Wikipedia has gotten too far left.

Liberal

This user recognizes that many articles on Wikipedia have liberal bias and understands that other editors may attempt to protect that bias, even if it is against the pillar neutrality.

This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.

Books

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Algernon Blackwood. This user enjoys reading Borges. This user enjoys the works of the Brontë sisters. This user loves the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy. This user loves reading anything by Josef Conrad 1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick. This user reads Emily Dickinson. This user enjoys the weird fiction of Lord Dunsany. WF This user enjoys the works of William Faulkner. This user enjoys the works of Thomas Hardy This user enjoys the weird fiction of William Hope Hodgson. This user enjoys the ghost stories of M. R. James. This user enjoys the works of Franz Kafka. This user enjoys the work of Stanisław Lem. CSL This user enjoys the works of C.S. Lewis. This user reads the works of H. P. Lovecraft. This user enjoys the weird fiction of Arthur Machen. This user thinks that Herman Melville is the greatest American novelist. This user enjoys the works of Mervyn Peake. This user enjoys the weird fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. This user enjoys the cosmic idealism of Olaf Stapledon. This user enjoys the poetry of R. S. Thomas. This user enjoys the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This user is a Bible reader. This user has read 11 of William Shakespeare's plays. This user is interested in Gothic literature. This user has read Capital Volume I. This user likes to read reference books, like encyclopedias and atlases.

Things I like

This user thinks the pig is a noble creature. This user likes owls. This user loves the forest. This user enjoys hiking. This user loves fungi. This user really likes old computers. This user loves baseball. PIT This user is a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates This user likes to do crossword puzzles. This user enjoys playing Sudoku. This user has never encountered a style of beer they don't like. This user prefers black coffee. This user drinks Lapsang souchong tea. This user loves to drink Root Beer. This user loves barbecue. This user eats poutine. This user's favourite fruit is Watermelon. This user enjoys Swedish Snus. This user enjoys country music. This user enjoys folk music. This user enjoys ambient music. IDM This user listens to intelligent dance music. This user enjoys jazz music. This user enjoys music by Frédéric Chopin. RVW This user holds Ralph Vaughan Williams in high esteem This user loves Martin Scorsese movies. This user loves the Westerns of John Ford This user loves films by David Lynch. Good evening! This user loves films by Alfred Hitchcock. This user loves the output of Krzysztof Kieślowski. This user loves films by Stanley Kubrick. This user enjoys the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. This user likes film noir and neo-noir.

My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till supper, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.

I am a graduate student in political theory currently writing my thesis on Plato's Laws, and most of my edits here revolve around things relevant to my scholarly interests: classical philosophy, ancient and medieval history, Islamic intellectual history, Abrahamic religions, the early American republic, the long nineteenth century, philosophical hermeneutics, Romanticism, philosophy of science, and right-wing critics of liberal modernity. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Origen, Plotinus, St. Augustine, al-Farabi, the English metaphysical poets, German idealism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

When it comes to the arts, I am a great fan of the Nazarene movement, neoclassicism, capriccio, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Northern Renaissance, Primitivism, the Arts and Crafts movement, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Gothic revival, Brick Gothic, Brick Expressionism, Art Deco, the WPA style, American vernacular architecture, and American Regionalism. In music, I have basically comprehensive knowledge when it comes to country music, and am also a great fan of American folk, Delta/acoustic blues, ragtime, and bop/post-bop jazz. My favorite poet is R. S. Thomas, and my favorite novels are Absalom, Absalom! and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.