schindler's top-ten list

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look, Borges is tremendous; i consider him to be an another class entirely
from any old fart like Burgess.

Burgess belongs in the "How I Long For Eton And The Sting Of The Master's
Lash Against My Bare Ass, When I Knew What Was What" sub-category of authors,
which includes Huxley and all Amises.

and now what you've all been waiting for! another list! 

1) Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
2) Storm and Steel, Ernst Junger
3) The Robbers, Friedrich Schiller
4) The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
5) Justine, The Marquis de Sade
6) On Thermonuclear War, Herman Kahn
7) Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
8) On Population, Thomas Robert Malthus
9) Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
10) Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon