Originally Posted by RK

The list is probably BS. He wrote it over the years, but certainly not when he was 15 and out of the blue.
Either he did not write it when he was 15, or he spent weeks doing research.
There is no way ANY 15 year old would know who all of these people are "Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, Bacon, Whittier, and Emerson, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi" or know about all those lakes, rivers, and mountains he listed.