Billy Rubin is a red herring Hannibal Lecter throws at senator Martin when her daughter goes missing…
b.
Heh, Grendel. 
You ain’t gonna tear my arms off Mo-Fo. 
don’t ask
Donald E Westlake
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001:A Space Oddysey
Well, Rascal was already taken.
Rostand’s famous Cyrano de Fergerac, of course.
>>>Someone kindly whispers a news flash to Ferggie<<<
Really? Damn. I always was a bit hard of hearing…
The Phantom Tollbooth here. It’s been a favorite of mine since fourth grade.
Finnegans Wake
(sort of)
Do I actually have to answer this?
Thundering typhoons! Welcome aboard, you bandit! Bootlegger! Bashi-bazouk! Breathalyser! Brigand!
I am the famous Codfish Sherlock, Asey Mayo, hero of some 30-odd mysteries created by Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Okay, I’m not really him, but by golly, I didn’t have to waste a lot of time trying to come up with a unique screen name, either.
A… carton of milk.
That’s right.
But… who would not want to be a seven-headed lizard? 
[sub]P.S.
Every time you say that, I finally realise how you got your name and then I forget again.
Maybe not literary,* per se*…
Mine’s, of course, from the Bill Monroe song of the same title. It’s important to me because I can remember a huge full moon rising over the mountians the night that my Grandfather was murdered. I was ten and he used to sing to me continually. Twenty some years later, I still remember that night and that moon very clearly.
*Well, it was on a moonlight night,
Stars shining bright,
Wish on high
Love said good-bye.
Blue moon of Kentucky
Keep on shining.
Shine on the one that’s gone and left me blue*
Shine on,
-BMoK
It’s from La Celestina written by Fernando de Rojas.
Hitchhikers guide…go figure…
the princess bride, only the good parts
Well, apart from my own highly successful publication ‘Centuries’, there is an allusion to me in the opening scene of Goethe’s ‘Faust’.
I also feature on the Al Stewart album ‘Past Present & Future’.
A bit of a mix then.
LOTR-Tolkien. The daughter of Elrond Half-elven, for those who can’t place it…also wife of Aragorn, making her Queen. I have high ambitions…
Ten Ever-Lovin’ Blue-eyed Years with Pogo by Walt Kelly.
I believe it has been re-issued as Ten Ever-Lovin’ Years with Pogo