Sentence:  I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O <WSD>Chekhov</WSD> , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a human being