Reading Buff Gifts

"I subscribed to a collector's magazine! It has great interviews with big-time collectors who buy the world's rarest treasures."

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

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

John Bunyan

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Audio Books

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

Cat Burglar

Doggone

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

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.

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Moby Dick

Myths and legends...

'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!"

Malaprop Man! Adventures. Malaprop Man! Where have you been? At a stupor her comet confection! Did many of your fellow heroes show up? We had a great turnabout! Backman and the Incredible Bulk were there! So was Caption Americ, the Flush, Wander Woman and Plasterman! Very impressive. Who was the most popular with the fans? I think I was the main distraction! I have no doubt at all about that!

Fifty shades of Leveson.

Roget's Pet

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

Shakespeare Street

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

Early man wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the development of language.

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'