Bare Minimum Conversation

MAN, THAT'S CRAZY CATCH THE GAME LAST NIGHT? Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal,...

A man grills food while the image caption says “MAN, THAT'S CRAZY” and “CATCH THE GAME LAST NIGHT?”. Below, a reply humorously lists philosophers, writers, artists, and historical figures as the “bare minimum” for conversation, parodying pretentious intellectual standards. It is used as a reaction to someone demanding absurdly highbrow conversation skills. EN: A man grills food while the image caption says “MAN, THAT'S CRAZY” and “CATCH THE GAME LAST NIGHT?”. Below, a reply humorously lists philosophers, writers, artists, and historical figures as the “bare minimum” for conversation, parodying pretentious intellectual standards. It is used as a reaction to someone demanding absurdly highbrow conversation skills.

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