Hallo, I'm Ian Alexander. If you're curious about my handle, Chiswick is a place (with a silent 'w') and chap means a man. It's चिज़िक चैप in Hindi's Devanagari script, which I think works rather elegantly. Maybe that goes with my Yoga edits.
I suppose it is natural for an encyclopedia to look into the history of everything: after all, it cannot look forward or even at the present. A liking for Sweden led to "Il signor improvisatore" Carl Michael Bellman's wonderful 18th century songs, especially Fredman's Epistles. Similarly, interest in patterns led to tessellation, a meeting-place of mathematics and art, which led in turn to the splendour of Islamic geometric patterns. Another track is English cuisine, where I found a void in coverage of even the most important historic cookery books, and a remarkable amount of recentism. During the Covid lockdowns I walked the streets of Chiswick every day and did quite a bit on its coverage here. I've had a go at the whole area of living things in culture, another juicy subject with a rich history, and have scoured and renewed much of Wikipedia's Tolkien coverage.
I seem to enjoy creating order out of chaos, which is fortunate as there is a considerable supply of suitable articles. If you think this is all mad, I won't disagree with you.
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