Literary Nonsense Buff Pillows

Edward Lear

'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."

"Now I really hate poetry."

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?"

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

John Bunyan

'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.

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"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."

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

"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!"

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

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

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

"Some Debussy, Igor."

"My God! There goes middle management."

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

Richard the Turd

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"

'..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

'Now in Capulets'

Shakespeare in the clink

'Cap'n Ahab, Sir! Starbuck wants to know if you fancy a coffee.'