Angling Intellectuals Pillows

'What do you mean fishing is the thinking person's sport? How smart are fish?'

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

Paul Ree

"Lori, go ahead and toss in 'Lolita.' Now, what's next?" "We'll need more lighter fluid." "'The Lottery' is devils work." "We must protect the children." "Book burning club"

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

Miss America IQ Pageant

"...You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here... You talking to me?!" "Narcissus De Niro"

The intellectual.

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

"Caption contest"

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

'Between you and me Wizard, is it true that you intellectuals have pointed heads?'

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

Lost and Profound.

'Making staff get a sick note after one day is essential if we're to make the whole system work more efficiently!'

Jacques Lacan

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

'My thanks go first to the Nobel Committee for this great honor, and to my son who encouraged me to keep my mind agile with word games, and puzzles.'

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

"Care for an oxymoron?"

Toni Morrison

George Santayana

"You're terrific, Katia. You think like 'The New York Review of Books' and look like 'Vogue.'"

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

Philosophers On Strike

Soren Kierkegaard

Thomas Carlyle

'This is getting to be too much for me. I'm thinking of becoming a middlebrow.'

Raymond Queneau

John von Neumann, after completing his book. 'Theory of Self-Replicating Automata'.

Margaret Cavendish