Literary Nonsense Buff Gifts

Edward Lear

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

"Now I really hate poetry."

'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."

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."

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

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

"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

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

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

"Some Debussy, Igor."

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

"My God! There goes middle management."

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"

Richard the Turd

"My dad says this pencil was once used by William Shakespeare." "Is it 2B or not 2B?"

Shakespeare in the clink

'Now in Capulets'

"Right to Romeo"

Franz Kafka