“It’s the fault of the Romantics, who eliminated humor from poetry. Shakespeare’s hilarious, Chaucer’s hilarious. The Romantics killed off humor, and they also eliminated sex, things which were replaced by landscape. I thought that was a pretty bad trade-off, so I’m trying to write about humor and landscape, and occasionally sex.”
Maggie: Who should be the mother?
Samuel: There is no mother! I’m just a man living here. No one is married.
Maggie: Well somebody could get married.
Samuel: No! Then there would have to be all the romance stuff.
Maggie: There wouldn’t have to be romance.
me: You could have a marriage of convenience.
Samuel: I don’t think it’s convenient!!
“Every time I see something that says “She said yes!”, I always think “She did? Why?” Why would anyone agree to marry a man?” —My father
It’s May! It’s May! The Lusty Month of May! That lovely month when ev’ryone goes blissfully astray. Tra la! It’s here! That shocking time of year!
“…With the result that we will be lifted by the urgent pull of the flesh into a state of ecstatic fusion.”
Billy Collins, “The Mortal Coil”
“So greatly did Gwindor love her beauty that he named her Faelivrin, which is the gleam of the sun on the pools of Ivrin.”
“We’re a real couple now!” -How I Met Your Mother
“I must have an overprotective italian father gene.”
“By 2007, you couldn’t swing a dead cat in the library literature without hitting an article about something 2.0.”
Lecture for Reference Sources and Services class. Fabulous.
