Lolita, light of my life...
...might fail to yell "Foil!"...
...or opt to yell "Epee!" --
she's just that unpredictable...
Poet Poe pens nonsense verse. "...plus phun," puns Uly, "I disburse." Its gamut runs from spam to worse. The matter posted...? Poe's diverse -- most, postcards from his universe, replies to grudges he must nurse. My summary...? Let me be terse: a mitzva, mostly. (Not a curse.)
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
...might fail to yell "Foil!"...
...or opt to yell "Epee!" --
she's just that unpredictable...
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Anagramaniacal Openin Lines
On an exceptionally hot evening...
...having no expectation, none yell...
...such triple-digit temps can leave even the most gung-ho Russian peasant unmotivated...
Sunday, June 29, 2025
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces...
...three Harpwig FC wheels (NG) 'n' three-foot Cucu beetles (NG)...
...two strikers and a goalie from the recently relegated Yorkshire football club and several exceedingly tall insects imported from Amazonia -- and nary a one of 'em any good...
William Shakespeare's Richard III Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
Now is the winter of our discontent...
...wet feet, no oro sun, thin cows in dirt...
...and my damn back is killin' me.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hudred Years of Solitude Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad...
...he -- Mr. Sage, Sr. as Chief Yananda -- quietly farted...
It was in this role -- that of the charismatic though flatulent tribal leader of the local Yanomamo natives -- which the elderly actor had performed on the West End stage to some critical applause only three months before being convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of El Presidente's only daughter.
Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
In a village of La Mancha...
...Che, an ailing vole, a lama...
...with only months to live, preached to his fellow lemmings a religion fusing Cuban Marxism with Tibetan spiritual practices...
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
If sailor tales to sailor tunes...
...fail to start one's isle-air soul...
...then wtf...?
Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
I am packing my belongings...
...Ma -- locking penis in gym bag...
Look the other way, won't you, please, Mother, 'til I'm finished...?
George Orwell's 1984 Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
It was a bright cold day in April...
...what AI call'd "a boy's tiring drip"...
...just how tiring the drip could become young Winston would discover all too soon...
Friday, June 27, 2025
Edward Lear's Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
The Scroobious Pip went out one day...
...an' busted (oy! phoo!) its out-worn piece...
How now will it ever replace that toupee and engender of humiliation surcease...?
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Underground Anagramaniacal Opening Lines
Alice was beginning to get...
...to a nice big wan tinsel egg.
"That girl is REALLY starting to bug me," the largest of a nestful of pale (and, until but a moment before, pleasant) foil-festooned oval spheres was heard to remark.
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Composed and illustrated in 2019, each verse of poetaster Ulysses ("Uly") Poe's illuminated nonsense lyric "What A's ...
