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Dear Demetershines:
Lord Byron was cocky.
So was Shelley.
Einstein flapped his arms & crowed for five minutes straight when his first paper was published. Does that count too?
Archimedes? Cocky as all hell.
Kafka? You might not think so, but anyone who says,
"I am literature" is.
Joyce: cocky.
Francis Crick. Very cocky.
Gertrude Stein? Obviously.
"This is my letter to the world"? Emily, too.
I don't think Nietzsche or Pound really were.
Hegel and Wagner. Definitely were.
Descartes? Vain, but not cocky.
Rousseau, in an offhand way.
Wittgenstein? Cockiness doesn't get any better than that.
Goethe, by the way, mentions in his diary about how insecure he felt and how depressed it made him at least once a week or so.
Egbert
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