Clerihew for Rabbit Angstrom

JOHN UPDIKE

When first he made his Rabbit run,
He'd decades left before he'd done.
Just like
Updike.

Daily Dose

From Days Without End, by Sebastian Barry

WE LEARN

"We learn to listen to the house and take our tack from the humours and rapids of particular nights."

From Chapter 11

Clerihew for a Gourmand

PIETRO ARENTINO

Pietro Arentino
Loved a maraschino
And or any kind of ripe red cherry.
His appetites were legendary.

Daily Dose

From No Exit and Three Other Plays, by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Stuart Gilbert

SIT

"I'll sit on your sofa and wait for you to take some notice of me. I'll promise not to bother you at all."

From No Exit, Estelle

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, By Elif Batuman

WARM

"Warm at last, I spent the rest of the evening sitting on my cot, sipping the icy beer and reading Anna Ioannovna: Evgeny Anisimov's definitive biography of the empress who decided to marry her jesters in a house made of ice."

From The House of Ice

A Caricature