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'Can you tell me where James Herriot lives?'

Subway Library

“How was the beach?”

Book store entitled: 'Content & Things'.

Man with barking dog on lead sees Cheshire cat in tree.

Someone reading on an escalator.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

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

The Bookworm

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Reading my Critics

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Distractions Of The Great

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Why can't you admit you're lost?'

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

"Chair looks couch potato friendly!"

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

Jack London

Günter Grass