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admire or enjoy?

i admire hegel, amazing, but fuck if i'm going to read him. give me the cliff notes. i admire plato too, his bullshit is a historical feat, but ayayay, today it's a chore. i admire shakespeare too but can only comfortably read him in translation, and at the theatre i dont understand a fucking word (subtitles, please).

admire and enjoy: borges, cervantes, garcia marquez, homer (not a "writer" proper but let's not split hairs), dostoevski, tolstoy, nietzsche, goethe, rilke, baudelaire, rimbaud, quevedo, gongora, ruben dario, whitman, poe, garcia lorca, blake, etc etc, oh i adore la sontag, severo sarduy, lezama lima, joyce of course, kafka, vallejo, h.g. wells, i can write forever, i will keep editing this list

i also enjoy writers that i don't admire or at least don't admire on an epic level-- philip roth, russel hoban, pk dick, alan dugan, auden, tears eliot, cummings, kundera, the hernandez bros, the guy who writes "fables", that cock tennyson, mark twain, dante (fuck him), jhumpa lahiri (i might some day let's see what she does), some vargas llosa (asshole), some murakami, & lots more.