Intellectual Reader Gifts

"I'm going to give Dostoyevsky another chance."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Miss America IQ Pageant

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

Paul Ree

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

"The only hobby we tolerate is working on weekends."

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"My favorite part of the story was when Prince Charming kissed Sleeping Beauty and she totally rebooted."

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Childrens Books. This pop-up book would make a great 3-D movie!

Assertiveness

"When Mom reads that story, the dragon comes off as a much more sympathetic character."

Creating dummy corporations for dummies.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

'"Einstein, Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer...but you look through the Old Testament and through the Talmud, and there's not a word about physics."

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

Library: Self-Help Books and Blame a 'Rigged' Political System.

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

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

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

Lost and Profound.

dog reading EKG

Man sees book flying in the Mystery section.

Jacques Lacan

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

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

"Writing that book was a real strain."

"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.'

George Santayana

"We were poor and had the good sense to be miserable."

Man reading 'Bankruptcy for Dummies'.

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