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Let’s say you had the number of a lot of famous writers in you cell phone.

You want to go out, relax, have a beer and talk in a pub. What writer would you invite to go with you? Let me first speak about my opinion.

I would invite Shakespeare. Not just because he is one of my favorite writers (Tolstoy, for example, is also one of my favorites and I would never invite him), but also because he really seems to be a cool and chill dude. Just look to his face (in the Chandos Portrait): those sleepy eyes, dat earring, dat hairstyle, dat sensual lips. He was probably very good with the ladies and enjoyed some quiet and light conversation. It is clear that he had a very strong sense of humor, since he wrote lots of comedies, several of them in different comic styles. He also had a very palpable knowledge about brothels – that means that, after some beers, we could go to some cabaret and enjoy the company of the ladies. On top of that: he was the greatest master of language in English and probably in all human languages.

Like I said before: I love the writing of Tolstoy, but he, for example, I would never invite to drink and chill out. The man was an enormous egocentric; he constantly fought with anyone that expressed an opinion different from his one. As he grew old, not satisfied with being famous as a writer, he also wanted to become famous as a prophet, some kind of new apostle. When he drank and whored in his youth he never did it in a calm and festive vein, but nervously and ferociously, and in the next hour we as already regretful and self-immolating himself. When he got old, he simply condemned everything that he enjoyed in his youth. Furthermore, he was not good with women: he had many, but usually poor peasant girls of whom he was the master and mostly prostitutes. Definitely I would not like to hang out with this brother.