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Zorns Lemma, The Machinist, Out of the Past, The Lives of Others, Alexander Nevsky, Man on Fire, Film Portrait, Un Chant D'Amour, Motorcycle Diaries, Intolerance, Pull My Daisy, Angels With Dirty Faces, You Can Count on Me, Bleu Shut, The Searchers, Fight Club, Sin City, Laura, Dead Man, Manhattan, Nobody's Fool.
Betting on the Muse, The Fall, Outcast of the Islands, The Inferno, The Iron Heel, Black Spring, Galaxy's Rainbow, A Hero of Our Time, God Hates Us All, Poet in New York, Crazy Cock or Lovely Lesbians, The Great Gatsby, Brothers Karamazov, Revolution, James and the Giant Peach, Henry I, The World Of the Ten Thousand Things, Altas Shrugged, Playback, Scream When You Burn, Birthday Letters, Libra, Howl, Pulp, Maus, Love is a Dog From Hell, Generation of Swine, This Side of Paradise, Fight Club, everybody pays., Any Rough Times are Now Behind You, Leaves of Grass, Moloch, A Happy Death, Nightworks, The Master and Margarita, Ulysses, America, Invisible Man, How To Lose Your Mind With The Lights On, Tender is The Night, The Imposter, Narcissus and Goldmund, Women, Roscoe, Negative Blue, Atlas Shrugged, Martin Eden, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Leaves of Grass, Wonder Boys, The Death of Socrates, This Side of Paradise, Blood Meridian, Let the Devil Ride., The Beautiful and Damned, Les Fleurs du Mal, Stone Alone, Tristessa, Love In The Time Of Cholera, Fall of the Titan, The Romantic Manifesto, Don Quixote, Book of Nightmares, The Waste Land, The Iron Heel, The Great Gatsby, The Books In My Life, Ascent, The Last Tycoon, A Theory of Semiotics, A Moveable Feast, Mortality Poems, The Road, The Collected Frank O'Hara, The Tender Bar, The Transgressors, No Country For Old Men.
Buk, Socrates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Thomas Jefferson, Nina Simone, Michael Datcher, Malachy McCourt, Milan Kundera, Lawrence Durrell, Plato, Gaius Octavius, The Bard, Eugene O'Neill, Walter Benjamin, Galway Kinnell, Federico Garcia Lorca, Karl Marx, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Conrad, Albert Einstein, Machiavelli, Billy Holiday, Galileo, Mother Theresa, Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Edward Albee, Botticeli, Balzac, Charles Wright, Rob Wermlinger, Hank Moody, Joseph Priestly, William Burroughs, de Spinoza, Euripides, Ted Hughes, Arthur Miller, Rodin, Abraham Lincoln, Karol Jozef Wojtyta, Lou Reed, Seamus Heaney, George Hegel, George Harrison, James Joyce, Beckett, Frank Lloyd Wright, Brian Townsley, Donald Hall, Dos, Raymond Chandler, Richard Miers, Bertrand Russell, George S. Patton, Jim Harrison, Hubert Selby, Nina Simone, Carl Sandburg, Marvin Bell, John Steinbeck, Anne Sexton, Charlie Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Voltaire, Walter Payton, Ayn Rand, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Thomas Paine, Tu Fu, Li Po, Tim Townsley, Dave Robicheaux, Marlowe, Pele, Hunter S. Thompson, Ms. Dixon (second grade teacher), Muhammad Ali, Goethe, Emerson, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Robert Altman, Felini, Tobias Deehan, Robert Mitchum, John Lennon, Willie Mays, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Johnny Cash, Bono, Vaclav Havel, Stanley Kubric, Milo Martin, Apollonaire, William Tecumseh Sherman, Theodore Roosevelt, Buddha, Chris Coleman, Mark Rothko, Picasso, Edward Hopper, Eugene Ellsworth, Pushkin, Walt Whitman, Martin Scorsese, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Mahler, Wagner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ken Ott, Machiavelli, Jackson Pollock, Kevin Sampsell, Fernando Pessoa, Michael Madsen, Charles Simic, Tom Waits, Sadat, WWII veterans, the common ones, the slobs like us who achieve the extradinary in times of need, Nabokov, Lermontov, Vladimir Burstev, Che, Frank O' Hara, Rumi, Ronaldinho, Steven Gerard, Dave Alvin, Alexander Hamilton, R.K. Johnston, James Balwin, Susan Glaspell, Tecumseh, Jack London, Lady Day, Prez, Clifford Brown, Paul Newman, Zorba the Greek, Rob Cohen, C.W. Griffin, to name but a few...