Their writing reflects deep thought on issues of human importance, such that T.S Eliot wrote no more than 150 pages of poetry in his entire career and James Joyce wrote Ulysses at the rate of a hundred words a day.
I found these books quite interesting, for in some places you can decipher Jones's thoughts on issues of proportion, measurement and line.
Today as we celebrate the 60th anniversary, UNICEF is having young people who designed the 2007 UNICEF Albania Calendar, "Look Me in the Eye", as a tool to express their views and thoughts on issues that are of concern to them.
Even five years ago the thought of this issue being even discussed was an anathema and it is a great triumph for the tens of thousands of Ukip members and supporters that they have, through calm and passionate arguments, put it on the nation's agenda.
Giles Dilnot took the Daily Politics mood box - an unscientific method with a box and coloured balls - to see what the man and woman on the street - including Tory MP Mark Field - thought of the issue.
"It was wrong to own a slave in Mississippi and Michigan," explained the potential 2012 presidential contender on the thought of the issue being addressed on the state level.
Questions were adapted to assess the frequency of intrusive thoughts and avoidance of issues surrounding the specific event of that time-point: the PSA test, the biopsy, the negative biopsy result and, for the follow-up assessment, being tested for prostate cancer overall.
But I have to admit that the thought of confronting financial issues such as saving for retirement and making a will makes me queasy and uncomfortable.
Being a literary nerd, the thought of having 4000 issues of The New Yorker is somewhat appealing, but I can't see myself ever truly putting it to use for anything other than dorked out lit cred.
Soon at odds with Averroist and Thomist interpretations, he tried to establish Aristotle's original thought on a number of issues.
