The Desire To Protect "Culture"

[Louis VI the Fat]

Nonsense. I simply reject the view that there is an all-time great, and that Shakespeare belongs on a pedestal, far above contemporary artists.

Clearly, you understand nothing about literature.

Hamlet's Shakespeare is such a moving read! His 27 page stream-of-soliloquy at the end of Ulysses moves me to tears. And there are other great Irish novellists besides Hamlet! Such as that one already named by Banquo, Bard. And those masters of contemporary surrealism, Brian Cowen and Bertie Ahern (nicknamed 'The Bert'). And Brian O'Driscoll, although he is more famous for his many essays.