English Literature Buff Mugs

Hercules Poirot meets Pierrot

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

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

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

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

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

'I used to commute. Now I transform.'

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

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

John Bunyan

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

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

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

Robocop and Juliet.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

"Oh, this old thing?"

Non-Creative Writing, Also Known as Plagiarism 101.

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Thomas Hardy

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

After the Sentence

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

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

Shakespeare Street

"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!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

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

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Richard the Turd