Clerihew of a Nobel Dandy.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Rabindranath Tagore,
When setting out on tour,
In addition to poems and "rabindrasangeet",
Would pack fashionable shoes for his delicate feet.
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Daily Dose

From The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell

ALMOST

"'Almost everybody appears to be dead,' shouted Fleury in a discouraged tone."

From Chapter 10

Daily Dose

From An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India, by V. S. Naipaul

THIS IS

"He took a napkin off his shoulder and flicked away tiny flies.  'This is nothing. Get little hot, little flies dead.  Big flies come chase little flies.  Then mosquito come bite big flies and they go away.'"

From Chapter 5, A Doll's House on the Dal Lake

Part Five of A Runcible Reading of Edward Lear

Daily Dose

From Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws: A Journey through Modern India, by Laura Pedersen

ALTHOUGH

"Although the cows in Goa appear to be independent operators, in reality they are ladies who lunch."

From Down South

Annawadi Clerihew

KATHERINE BOO

What can one do
With Katherine Boo?
She will keep coming
Back to slumming.

Anglo-Indian Clerihew

RUDYARD KIPLING

Poor Rudyard Kipling,
Was just a stripling,
When sent back "home," from his beloved Bombay,
To be neglected in the English way.