Octavius Monk was a very smart punk
And he had his ideas in clusters
Though his thoughts would amaze
And worthy of praise
Most people he would just fluster
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Lewis Carroll
From Some Of His Poems
"The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoop to perpetrate a pun.
...
Sound argument and grave defence,
Strange questions raised on "Why?" and "Whence?"
And wildly tangled evidence.
...
Her idea of passive beauty
Was a squinting of the left-eye,
Was a drooping of the right-eye,
Was a smile that went up sideways
To the corner of the nostrils.
...
(On writing poetry)
"for instance, if I wished, Sir,
Of mutton-pie to tell,
Should I say 'dreams of fleecy flocks
Pent in a wheaten cell'?"
...
There is an insect that people avoid
(Whence is derived the verb 'to flee')
Where have you been by it most annoyed?
In lodgings by the Sea.
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