Really long essay that sounds arrogant

When I was a high school student taking art classes, I happened to read this in the back of my copy of "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

Here! :D
http://www.online-literature.com/donne/2313/
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Anyways, I think I'm more baffled by it now than at any other point in time. I have to wonder how much of it is posturing, sincerity, sarcasm, and so on.
Maybe the only purely honest thing he had written and published was the Ballad of Reading Goal. Maybe the only purely honest thing I have ever written was my resume? Maybe I don't even know what I'm talking about?
But never mind all that jazz, according to the list of posts thing this should be 99.
Yay!
I love how publishing always has to fail once before my posts show up.