Pop Quiz: Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ or Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’
1. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
2. Place your head on my beating heart. I’m thinking out loud that maybe we found love right where we are.
3. Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?
4. And the rest is rust and stardust.
5. Maybe it’s all part of a plan, I’ll just keep on making the same mistakes hoping that you’ll understand.
6. Look at this tangle of thorns.
7. Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.
8. Take me into your loving arms, kiss me under the light of a thousand stars.
9. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
10. I talk in a daze. I walk in a maze.
11. Honey your soul can never grow old, it’s evergreen.
Vladimir: 1,4,6,7,9,10
Ed: 2,3,5,8,11
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Paul Lander is not sure which he is proudest of — winning the Noble Peace Prize or sending, Congolese gynecologist, Dr. Denis Mukwege to accept it on his behalf, bringing to light the plight of African women in war torn countries. In his non-daydreaming hours, Paul has written for Weekly Humorist, National Lampoon, American Bystander, Huff Post Comedy, McSweeney’s, Bombeck Writers Workshop Blog, Humor Times, written and/or produced for multiple TV shows and written standup material that’s been performed on Maher, The Daily Show, Colbert, Kimmel, etc. Now, on to Paul’s time-commanding Special Forces in Khandahar…
