Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Return of the Toad
















The Surinamese English Studies Toad.

Possessed of an unshakeable belief that all works of English Literature are in fact about toads. Works including:

Kerouac, On the Toad
Shelley, Toad to the West Wind
Hardy, Far from the Madding Toad
Thomas, Under Milk Toad

Crow, by Toad Hughes
Roland Barthes, Discours de la Toad (he also reads French, somewhat haltingly)
Chaucer, The Canterbury Toads (getting desperate now) –
and {snip}

Not to be confused with the Paraguayan English Studies toad. The best he can do is some rinky-dink book claiming the semi-colon is a big Masonic plot. Tosser.

Now add your own toad-themed titles. Batrachianism is such a rewarding pastime.

Image found here.

15 comments:

  1. Toadshead Revisited... Waugh
    Toad A Definition Of Culture... TS Eliot
    Ribbit Redux... John Updike
    A Toad In My Prime & Greetings From Our Toads In Brazil.... Paul Durcan
    Toads Etc. Alice Oswald
    Kerry Hardie... Cry For The Hot Toady
    The Toady's Notebook & Natterjack by Ron Silliman
    Misery Bog ... David Wheatley

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  2. Mark Granier... The Sky Toad.

    Well you started it.

    'TS Eliot'

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  3. ...and let's not forget my first one, Waterborne.

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  4. Beckett... Crapaud's Last Toad.

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  5. Evelyn Waugh... Vile Toadies.

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  6. Frost... The Toad Less Traveled
    Dickens... A Toad Of Two Cities
    Ashbery... Some Toads
    Mahon... A Disused Toad In Co Wexford
    Pound... The Cantoads
    Billy Collins... Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Toads
    Toadstoy... Wart And Peace

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  7. Proust... In Remembrance of Toads Past
    Achebe... Toads Fall Apart

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  8. Not to mention that Burt Bacharach song, Wart the World Needs Now.

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  9. Djuna Barnes... Newtspawn. Toadally unreadable though, with a title like that.

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  10. Immanuel Velikovsky... Toads In Collision
    The Bible: The Toad Testament

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  11. forgot the Bible's Newt Testament.

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  12. And then there's always their favourite sitcom, Father Toad.

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  13. Don't forget The Da Vinci Toad, guys. And Ian McEwan's roadkill thriller, Sad Toad Day.

    But, really, it's ridiculous to carry on as though all of Eng Lit were about toads. There's Larkin's Stoats Revisited for starters.

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  14. I'll need to see some stoatistics on that before I could comment.

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  15. Absolutely Ron, but you're forgetting the last lines of that poem:

    "Give me your hand old stoat,
    Help me with my toadskin coat."

    And the title of his fianl (and finest) collection: High-Win-Toads.

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