Analytic Aficionado Gifts

Bertrand Russell.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

'He was just saying that all things come to him who waits and, sure enough, along came a lightning bolt.'

"Philosophy Department. Why may I direct your call?"

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Schrodinger's Black Box

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

Finally I understand why it's called 'Higher Education!'

Ironing Punctuation

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

My Literary Influences

"An excellent defense. Let's give her the doctorate."

"First, we'll look for repressed memories of malpractice suits."

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

Library

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

A gorilla plays chess with his keeper.

"Leon, do you think it's all psychological?"

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

'Gee, I just never get tired of this!'

Boardroom sacrifice - 'Then we agree - the shareholders don't have to know what transpired here today.'

Corporate Darwinism

Max Weber

Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations