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]
Lord, I am not high-minded : I have no proud looks.
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.
- almost-instinct has a sense of irony; do you?
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The Original Barnstar |
| For four fucking years of dedication and vigilance at Philip Larkin, from a humble new small-time editor. Leonxlin (talk) 02:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
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The Working Man's Barnstar | |
| For services at the coalface, for not turning the old tenantry away, and for avoiding soundless damage |
almost-instinct's sandbox.
I created the following handful of pages:
- Stanford Olsen - American Rossini tenor
- Grant Doyle (baritone) - young Australian baritone
- Gary Lehman - American Heldentenor
- Artur Ruciński - young Polish baritone
- Nicholas Sharratt - young British tenor
- Anna Karenina (Hamilton) - forgotten modern opera
- La romanziera e l'uomo nero - forgotten Donizetti opera
- Neil Howlett - British Verdi baritone
- Greek (play) - the source for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera
- Anna Christy - American soprano
- Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
- The North Ship - early volume of Larkin's poetry
- Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)
- Collected Poems – 1988 edition (Philip Larkin)
- List of poems by Philip Larkin