Monday, August 15, 2011

Literary Quotation grabbag

Another slow day at the Digressions Depot, therefore a clutch of quotations:

"The ideal view for daily writing, hour on hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse." -- Edna Ferber.

"He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him."  -- Oscar Wilde on George Bernard Shaw. 

"Poets aren't very useful/Because they aren't consumeful or produceful."  -- Ogden Nash.

4 comments:

  1. Alert! Lyndon Grove suspect in fiendish plot! Okay, maybe he was just one of the suspects, and maybe it was the name of a character on a TV show - Murdoch Mysteries (filmed in Toronto) - and just maybe it turned out the clue actually was referring to Lynden, Ontario, and specifically a graveyard named Something-or-other Grove, but it makes a good headline. And sometimes readers just don't go beyond the headlines.

    A clue to the secret identity of Flying Rabbit is where the picture was taken.

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  2. Infrared scrutiny of the photograph, consultation with cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code, forensic analysis, and files from Sam Spade, Matt Scudder and Miss Marple have led to this inescapable conclusion: Flying Rabbit is Veronica Lake.

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  3. a Lake, yes, but if pictures had sound you would hear the faint droning of a ghost bagpiper over the dunes.

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  4. I hear it now--the braw and bonny strains of "Scotland the Brave" and "Loch Lomond." Great Scot! Flying Rabbit is...Sean Connery!

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