Literary Riffs

The title character’s death speech from The Crater Lake Monster:

Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury…ah, the hell with it.

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Ha! I’m in the middle of re-reading The World According to Garp. I’ll have to go back and watch Fire Maidens.

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From Danger, Diabolik!

May flights of Jaguars sing thee to thy rest.

As Mike would surely know, from Hamlet, mostly.

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Can’t forget the Algonquin sketch:

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“Everyone thought that Joseph Campbell was tough, but that was just a myth.”

My favorite line from that sketch!

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Both The Magic Sword and Puma Man mention Willa Cather’s birthplace and/or ancestral home.

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