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Edgar Allen Poe

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

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

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

"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."

My Literary Influences

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

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

Ironing Punctuation

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

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!'

'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.'

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.

'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

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

Short story. Collected works. The Tolstoy gulp

Library