English Literature Buff Gifts

Hercules Poirot meets Pierrot

"Alas, poor Yorkie! I knew him well."

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

"You do realize I'm going to have to bill you for ten?"

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

'I used to commute. Now I transform.'

German Expressionist Breakfast

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

John Bunyan

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

"Oh, this old thing?"

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Robocop and Juliet.

Non-Creative Writing, Also Known as Plagiarism 101.

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Thomas Hardy

'Hey, Charlie, have we got good news for you!'

'Amount of white out used while writing, Moby Dick, an issue of The National Enquirer, and 101 Uses for a Dead Cat.'

After the Sentence

The Beer Garden of Eden: "This hard cider is life-changing. Try a sip."

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Shakespeare Street

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

Shakespeare's Brain