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"Matsuzaka has an ERA of 3.88, yet Francona’s starting Schilling. Doesn’t that seem counterintuitive to you?"

'You forget, I'm a blackbelt in powerpoint.'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"These projections don't make sparkles shoot out my ass."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

"I'm razzled, but not dazzled."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

John Bunyan

"Great plan. Could we get some more details?"

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

Letters escape from a caged book.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."