It was indeed Joyce. Hail, jackalope!
Please don’t think this. I read Poe’s stories as a kid for the horror factor, never had a class on him and have no recollection whatever of Ligeia. Your parody could be the greatest and I still wouldn’t know one way or another.
:bump:
It must be someone’s turn…I didn’t notice this thread until after all the guesses 
Come on, y’all can identify Cicero but not who I am?
Hey, since when do I have to complete both subject and message fields in order to post?
Homer.
Ding!
Woo-hoo! I’ve been waiting a long time to get my homer dinged!
In a post, in a thread lived a furryman. Not a nasty post, full of cussing and a troll, nor a dry sarcastic post with nothing interesting in it to read: it is a furryman post, and that means sillyness.
furryman, are you a Hobbit? (Tolkien)
Sound the alarum, you are correct.
It should be lurkernomore’s turn, but it’s been almost nine hours now. This has been a fun thread. To keep it going (and apologies for “breaking into line”) :
Take a trip to Prudhoe Bay
where the whale fishes play
and the sun sets red and angry
into Russia 'cross the way
My bad. Didn’t get online last night. I’ll post something after I get home today. (You don’t want me to have tech manual style, do you?) :eek:
You, sir, are Kipling. I can hear your paddles chunkin’ from Rangoon to Mandalay.
Hmmm.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Doper in possession of a fast Internet connection must be in want of a life.”
[sub](I know, feeble… it’s been a tough week…)[/sub]
Diogenes: I’ve think we’ve traveled quite far enough today. Shall we rest?
Dog: Yes, I could use a rest.
Diogenes: I’ve been doing some serious thinking about colored Floyds.
Dog: Any particular color?
Diogenes: Any would do, I suppose, but I was thinking in particular of those of the pink variety.
Dog: Pink Floyds?? What are those?
Diogenes: Not what, but who.
Dog: WHO is it then?
Diogenes: Not who IS it but who ARE THEY.
Dog: Well…
Diogenes: A band. Or more to the point, a rock band which often used gospel singers for dynamic emotional resolution.
Dog: Kind of like that movie “Sister Act”. That was about singers who were religious!
Diogenes: I hadn’t thought of that. Whoopie Goldberg, the star of that masterpiece was clearly drawing on the emotional impact of Pink Floyd. I hear if you translate the lines of the script into 7/4 groupings it’s in perfect synch with the Darkside of the Moon. Gospel flourishes and all!
Dog: Which reminds me about that whole Wizard of Oz synching.
Diogenes: Yes! Remember the singing munchkins? And Lymon Baum’s father…
Dog: Pleeease! He prefers “Frank”
Diogenes: No, his father’s name was “Ben” and he owned several opera houses.
Dog: I see where you’re going now!
Diogenes: Like gospel, the operatic singing infused his writing with dynamic emotional resolution! See how it’s all braided together?
Dog: Can we rest now? I’m tired of talking about Floyd, Whoopie & Baum.
Steve Wright nailed the Kipling. WTG
You are apparently Jane Austen, and I must say that I am imagining you looking quite fetching today in a lovely muslin sprigged frock with an empire waist.
Here’s another easy one:
eliminate capitals!
end all conventional rules.
i have a special gimmick,
see? i think that i amuse.
made my teachers crazy
yo! down with upper case, fools!
name me now
a famous poet
my name is here
expect you know it.
ee cummings?
Sumac!, you’re Douglas R. Hofstadter. (or, if that’s not right, you could be Bill Griffith, if you worked a giant fiberglas duck into it)
Hmmm, I was going to guess that sumac! was Beckett.
panamajack, bingo! Hofstadter it is. I had a hard time reading G.E.B., not because of the formal systems of cognitive logic, but because of the terribly overblown and obvious “creative” writing. Ugggh.
Kyla, Beckett’s a good guess given the absurdidy of the scene, but Beckett would actually be clever!
Here’s another REAL tough one:
One…bombtwo…bombREDbomb…blue…BOMB!
Dr. Seuss writes “Fail Safe”?