Criticism Aficionado Mugs

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

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

Ironing Punctuation

My Literary Influences

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

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

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

Filling the Missile Gap

'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!'

'Nice, but it needs more angst.'

"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."

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

Library

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

An acceptable level of TV violence.

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

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

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

Corporate Darwinism

"Don Wood? I don't know any Don Wood!"

Lord Byron

The Real Russian history

"Well...I notice a little criticism on my leadership style..."

"...and to save you time, anything I say that comes back to haunt me, was something taken out of context."

"But think of the S.E.O. if the title actually named the two cities."

The Meeting