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Who's greater?

>> No.21836216

>>21836183
Doesn’t matter.

>> No.21836217

the table

>> No.21836223

>>21836183
Shakespeare is overrated but Goethe is even overrateder

>> No.21836258
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>>21836183
What is Goethe’s pose supposed to be? Like I’m guessing they were stolen from a wax museum but I can’t fathom what he’s supposed to be doing

Incidentally the answer is to be found in pic related

>> No.21836601

>>21836223
Shakespeare is underrated. His genius is off the fuckin charts.

Goethe is a bore though.

>> No.21837050

>>21836183
The cabinet maker who make the cabinet in the background.

>> No.21837093

>>21836183
They're both greater.

>> No.21837101

>>21836183
Why does everything has to be characterized by its relative greatness over something else? That's not the right way to think about things. They are both great in different ways.

That being said Goethe is obviously superior

>> No.21837105

>>21836601
>Shakespeare is underrated.
In the US schoolchildren are taught his plays for many years, as they should be.

>> No.21837178

>>21836258
It looks like he's reading from a big scroll to me

>> No.21837593

>>21836183
Goethe admired Shakes. Shakes wasn't around to admire the GOAT.