Seriously? I pulled a NIETZSCHE? ::: quickly flipping through who he influenced to find out who influenced me ::: Ok.. from that philosophy site's page: Alfred Adler, Georges Bataille, Martin Buber, Albert Camus, E.M. Cioran, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Isadora Duncan, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Stefan George, Andr* Gide, Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Gustav Mahler, Andr* Malraux, Thomas Mann, H.L. Mencken, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Scheler, Giovanni Segantini, George Bernard Shaw, Lev Shestov, Georg Simmel, Oswald Spengler, Richard Strauss, Paul Tillich, Ferdinand T*nnies, Mary Wigman, William Butler Yeats and Stefan Zweig. ok... I was influenced by Adler, Derrida (unknowingly but deconstructivism was always an interest), Jung most definitely - mostly through Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth, Heidegger resonated disturbingly strongly in me when I learned about him... kinda liked Shaw in high school... and I remember I liked something from Yeats. Ok. it's the Kenneth Udut --> Joseph Campbell ---> Nietzsche connection. Ok. I'm ok with that now. _whew_. Got nervous for a minute