Letter Aficionado Gifts

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

GGGGG. F. E. It looks like the network is being upgraded.

"Let's have a great capital campaign this year."

Pen Pals

Edgar Allen Poe

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'Sir, will that be business or first class?'

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Stephen Spender.

Gunter Grass

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

'Junior's writing has improved. His letters from college pleading for more money, are froceful and flawlessly written.'

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Noel Coward.

My Literary Influences

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

Ironing Punctuation

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

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

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

'I think we're closing in on the missing calligrapher.'

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

'I can hold a match to his notebook.'

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'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!'

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

LIBRARY, 'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

Friedrich Schiller