Not a single woman, only a handful from outside Europe. Shakespeare, but no Chaucer; Homer, but no Plato; Stendhal, but not Balzac or Voltaire. He's not even good at being condescending.
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Clearly he's living rent free in my head. LOL. Probably the most embarrassing choice of all: I think Conrad is the only 20th century writer listed, and he died in 1924. That's a hundred years in which there were several (!) important literary developments. Poseur.
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