User:Frjwoolley

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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):

I'm a deacon in the Anglican Catholic Church. 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.

Please feel free to talk with me.

Contents 1 Beliefs, dogmatic and quirky 2 Enthusiams 3 Articles I've started 4 Articles I've contributed to in ways that strike me as reasonably important

[edit] Beliefs, dogmatic and quirky

I believe:

• The Nicene Creed and all the rest of the doctrine of the Seven Ecumenical Councils
• That everything in the Bible is true, and most of it to be taken literally
• That Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the playwright we know as "Shakespeare"
• That Richard III was (relatively) innocent, but was framed by the wicked Henry VII for the murders that he, Henry, had committed
• That Whittaker Chambers told the truth

[edit] Enthusiams

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, Saint Patrick equal-to-the-Apostles, 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), typology, Saint Thomas, the (old) Missale Romanum and Breviarium Romanum
• Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, Le Morte d'Arthur
• Dante (the greatest poet), his Divina Commedia (the greatest poem), Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso
• Heraldry
• The Book of Common Prayer, "William Shakespeare" (the other greatest poet), Edmund Spenser, the King James Bible
• De imitatione Christi, Saint François de Sales, 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, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, "sensation" novels, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Princess and the Goblin (the best children's book), Robert Louis Stevenson, 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
• Sandro Botticelli, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, John William Waterhouse, Evelyn de Morgan
• Winnie-the-Pooh, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien (whose The Lord of the Rings is the greatest literary work of the 20th century)
• London, Los Angeles, Firenze, Venexia
• Gregorian plainsong, Renaissance polyphony, Bach (heaven-inspired to write the Goldberg Variations, the Musikalisches Opfer, the Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, and so much more), Mozart, Beethoven; Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald; Dixieland
• Raymond Chandler (the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century), Talbot Mundy, John D. MacDonald, Robertson Davies, Patrick O'Brian, Tim Powers, hardboiled fiction
• Humphrey Bogart (the greatest screen actor), Grace Kelly (the most beautiful screen actress), Cate Blanchett; Alfred Hitchcock
• Casablanca, The Big Sleep, film noir
• Dr. Russell Kirk
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Kingdom of Talossa

[edit] Articles I've started

• The Bride of Lammermoor — The historical novel by Sir Walter Scott
• Tyrannick Love — The tragedy by John Dryden
• The Tempest (Dryden) — the adaptation by John Dryden and William D'Avenant of Shakespeare's comedy
• An Evening's Love — the comedy by John Dryden
• Hira Singh — a novel by Talbot Mundy

[edit] Articles I've contributed to in ways that strike me as reasonably important

• Trinity — that is, God
• Jesus/Rewrite — ditto
• Holy Spirit — ditto
• Nicene Creed
• Doxology
• Blessed Virgin Mary
• Anglo-Catholicism
• Oxford Movement
• Anglican Use
• Peter — the name
• John Dryden — the Restoration poet and dramatist
• Louis Hennepin — the unreliable historian

Wikipedia:Babel

en This user is a native speaker of English.

es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.

fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau moyen en français.

it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello intermedio.

de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

ca-1 Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell bàsic de català.