Essayist Pillows

'He was a great writer'

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Albert Camus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Carlyle

Marcel Proust

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paul Valery.

Salman Rushdie

D.H. Lawrence

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean about cats."

Max Beerbohm

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift.

Thomas Mann

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Fyodor Sologub

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean bout cats."

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

"Bond James, Bond."

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Copycats

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"I built this tree house for my kids. But it's so private, I've decided to use it as my home office."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. It's always my intention to leave you laughing."