The List


It’s not a long list. That’s the point. Hardly anyone gets to be on it. Nobody’s on it who isn’t a superhuman human. Actual gods don’t count. Only two of those, deliberately excluded. Shakespeare and Mozart.  End of that list. You want to fight? Tell me why your guy should be on the List. I’ll tell you why he isn’t.

First Guy
St. John the Divine

Italian Guy
Dante

English Guys
Milton
Newton
Blake
Orwell

French Guys
Voltaire
Pascal

German Guys
Bach
Nietzche
Jung

Spanish Guy
Picasso

American Guys
Poe
Bierce


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