And Don't Have Any Chicks Yourself

Just to round out Philip Larkin Day around here (pardon the pun), this funny two-panel comic:


Which refers, as I hope you know, to this classic. The person responsible for the cartoon, Greg Stekelman, has a wistful piece up at normblog today about how difficult it is to choose books that have knocked him for a loop as an adult:

So much serious literature has washed over me, leaving shrugs and weak smiles and tempered admiration. Last month I read Erasure by Percival Everett, which was an enjoyable enough read, but I couldn't tell you the protagonist's name - and yet I can still vividly remember Will Stanton, the central character of a series of fantasy books written by Susan Cooper that I read in the 1980s.

I've got an essay of my own in that series Norm is running -- TK, as they say in the biz.