Pretentious and Fake?

quomodo
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:52:16 +0000

It seems like you’re just throwing out names–ooh, I’ve read voltaire and dante and plato and sartre. But I think the weakest thing is it doesn’t tell us much about you–yeah, you like knowledge, but what specifically lit your intellectual fire at that time?

But it seems more earnest than purely pretentious–more like you desperately WANTED to impress rather than that you thought you were inherently very impressive. If that makes sense?