Yeats Aficionado Pillows

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allen Poe

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Stephen Spender.

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Gunter Grass

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

"When was the last time you exercised something other than a purchase option?"

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"Since global warming the Abominable Snowman is much less frightening than he used to be."

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Noel Coward.

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

My Literary Influences

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Ironing Punctuation

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

How a poet works

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

LIBRARY, 'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

Library

Short story. Collected works. The Tolstoy gulp

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise