I just rediscovered this single sheet of paper from so many archived in folders and boxes. I don’t remember why I wrote it, or for whom, probably for a class chuckle, probably for myself for fun. It’s worth sharing, but with the caveat: “Please forgive me.”

“From this small pip do mighty discords grow.”

			--William Snakesphere, “The Tempest”


“O bitter pip”

			--Charles Bowdelaire, “Flowers of Evil”

“Pip, pip, old chap!”

“Pip, pip yourself!”

			--P.G. Woodenhouser, “Their Man Peeves”



“He’s a real Pip, a rascal, a snake, a charlatan, what more can I say?”

			--William Makenopeace Slackery, “Vanity Unfair”



“Hail to thee blythe spirit,

 Pip thou never wert!”

			--P.B. Smelley, “Ode to a Pip”



“The district is spread out against the sky,

 A pip etherized upon a table”

			--B.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pipfrock”



“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this pip…”

			--Snakesphere again,

			“The Tragedy of Marvetcranewmye” the First”



‘Hold your noise!’ cried a terrible voice…from among the graves…

‘Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!’

‘O! Don’t cut my throat, sir,’ I pleaded in terror/ ‘Pray don’t do it, sir.’

‘Tell us your name!...Quick!’

‘Pip, sir.’

‘Once more,…give it mouth!’

 ‘Pip, Pip, sir.’

			--Charles Dickens, “Great Expiptations”



“What d’you wanna do today?”

“I dunno. What d’you wanna do today? 

“I dunno. What d’you wanna do today?”

“I dunno. Les us pip over to Willie’s and see if we can pip up anything.”

		--Pippi Stoutstocking Chayevsky, “Smarty”



“Hold your pip!”

--Zane Bred Hartless Grave, “Grubpippers of the Purple Pip”



“……”

	Emile Gorgon Zola, “Le Pip et le Noir”


“The pip can be cured in humans, but by ingestion of great quantities of carbolic, liberally administered with frequent doses of gall, to the extent that the tribes so effectively troubled with visions of many headed monsters, began to wonder if the cure were not as painful as the disease. All these things have I witnessed with my own eyes.”

	--Herododydes, “History of the Pippleponnesian Wars”