Monday, 8 November 2010

Clerihews: Jean-Paul Sartre, etc

In collections of the original Clerihews by E. C. Bentley, there is always a splendidly silly index. I have tried to enter into the spirit of this.

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One Christmas, a friend of Sartre
Invited him to visit Chartres
But he preferred to spend the festive season
Writing "A Critique of Dialectical Reason"

(Index under:-
Windows, rose, failureto appreciate
Christmas, Bah! Humbug!)

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At a cricket match, George Orwell
Neglected to keep the score well
But this brought him no reproof
From the ministry of Truth

(Index under:-
Wisden, inclusion in, unsuitability for)

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Mahler's "Fruits of the Earth"
Had its premiere in Perth
But the audience of Diggers
Greeted it with sniggers

(Index under:-
Classicism, in music, Australian insistence on)

1 comment:

  1. Wow you do like to write!! nice!! i got here trying to do a homework for college! lol!

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