Asimov will still be read voluntarily long after the last English Lit teacher has been purged.

Mark Twain did a better job of saying "THAT IS NOT PROPERTY, THAT IS A MAN" than anybody before or since.

Phileas Fogg barely manages to remember in time that each day going eastward was just a little less than 24 hours, and he had to set his watch a trifle earlier each day.

Lear's fate is a sharp lesson about flattery.

What do you have planned for Saint Crispin's Day?

Kate and Petruchio manage to get in everybody else's faces without ever doing anything her sisters could quite put a finger on. BEST. SIBLING. REVENGE. EVER.

If the new regime makes the reading of Jane Austen compulsory, then I will. I understand EMMA is comparatively short.

There is exactly one WWI poem that deserves to be remembered as expressing the life of a true and faithful soldier... under the command of a desk officer promoted for accomplishments on the field of cronyism:

The General inspecting the trenches

exclaimed with a horrified shout,

"I refuse to command a Division

which leaves its excreta about."


And certain responsible critics

made haste to reply to his words,

observing that his Staff advisers

consisted entirely of turds.


But nobody took any notice

No one was prepared to refute,

That the presence of shit was congenial

Compared with the presence of Shute.


For shit may be shot at odd corners

and paper supplied there to suit,

but a shit would be shot without mourners

if somebody shot that shit Shute.

(Clearly a candidate for the Cone of Shame.)