Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Austen, Shelley, Lovelace, Anning, Tubman, Curie, Lamar, DeBeavoir, Kael, Greer, Yousafzai. He'd shut up then.

For my attention, throw in MFK Fisher.

There is a bit in the _Preacher_ graphic novel where Tulip challenges Jesse, who she assumes knows nothing of feminism (which is fair to assume up to that point) and is mentally knocked back when he says he definitely prefers reading Germaine Greer to "the Dworkin woman".

Then of course in the next panel he admits he read them not out of any actual interest in learning about feminism, but because his life in the tiny town in which he was a minister was so crushingly boring that he eventually read *every single book* in the tiny town library.

Just want to say, with absolutely no shade, the "DeBeavoir" misspelling/typo and the way my mind read it is delightful and made me giggle. She will forever be Simone DeBeaver to me now!

BOLLOCKS I mistyped it! XD This is what I get for picking German instead of French in secondary school.

Which is funny because her pet name from Sartre was “Castor”.

Even better!

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.

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.

I recommend asking him why they are all homosexuals. (Presumably not all, but there’s enough flamboyant people, and persistent rumors many were at least bi, that he’ll have to find one who doesn’t sound like over-compensating.)