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Writing the Line
Steno pads sometimes get buried in the book shelf which results in an asynchronous dialogue between entries distanced in time. For example, this entry from 2001 is revisited in 2002. 13/03/01 Rumi has a line about being the moisture in … Continue reading
Purrfect Pun
In the age of cat videos, one comes across an apt little bit of verse from John S. Crosbie in Crosbie’s Book of Punned Haiku. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1979). There is nothing worse Than poems about cute cats It … Continue reading
Let Us
The image is from a greeting card copyright 1981 with the following credits: created by Scott Alyn and artist June Wood. The card came with seeds. The punning didn’t stop at the cover. Inside were planting instructions: Lettuce Seeds Plant … Continue reading
Puns and Nonesuch
Signage that is memorable. There are the magnificent murals of Pour Boy. Where one assumes that a poor boy (or girl) can quaff a modestly priced brew. Apiecalypse Now! – That’s pie as in pizza in case you missed the … Continue reading
Pun Punch
It begins to rain and Timothy Findley at the end of the title story in The Ark in the Garden (edited by Alberto Manguel) turns the reader’s mind to the moral of the story with a twist on the popular … Continue reading
Homophonia
It’s arresting. It appears (among other places) on page 66 of The New Yorker February 7, 2005. It is drawn and captioned by Matthew Diffee. It’s a single panel cartoon. A person sits by a begging cup holding a sign … Continue reading
A Vos Souhaits
On the Ides of March, perfect to document a very old joke. Julius Sneezer: “Etchoo, Brute?” This image reminds me of the line drawing illustrations in old Latin readers. It is from a coaster that I found. It may have … Continue reading
Cocasse
Edmund White provides a bilingual pun. If you know French you get an extra jolt. If you don’t, you still get a bit of fun. […] Didi dismisses them as vapid exhibitionists. “Look at their tight pants. Some are fascists, … Continue reading
From Pun to Satire
Piers Anthony Yon Ill Wind is a novel full of puns. Indeed the puns propel the plot. It was published in 1996 and has this passage in which a character, the husband of a woman sucked almost dry by a … Continue reading
Oneiric Composition
The description of dream reminds one of the structure of story. People think dreams aren’t real because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and … Continue reading