“I state without fear of successful briberyOne Christie book is as good as a libery.By the time you close it, murmuring “Splendid!”You’ve already forgotten how it ended.The crime is baffling, the plot Promethean,The solution is mixed with waters Lethean;Whoever is fingered by Hercule PoirotIs out of your head by this time tomorrow,And the hundredth time you enter your ChristeryThe same thick mist envelopes the mystery."
from “The Trouble With Shakespeare, You Remember Him” by Ogden Nash
“I state without fear of successful briberyOne Christie book is as good as a libery.By the time you close it, murmuring “Splendid!”You’ve already forgotten how it ended.The crime is baffling, the plot Promethean,The solution is mixed with waters Lethean;Whoever is fingered by Hercule PoirotIs out of your head by this time tomorrow,And the hundredth time you enter your ChristeryThe same thick mist envelopes the mystery."
from “The Trouble With Shakespeare, You Remember Him” by Ogden Nash