"To know the Moon as few men may, one must be just a little fey; and for our friendship's sake I'm glad that I am just a trifle mad."  From The Complete Poems of Robert Service, 1945.

Same.  From Dark Shadows, episode 342.

At least we can all believe in something -- asterisks.  From What We All Believe by Rugh Cranston, 1951.

We trust you never flattered yourself that fairy tales were for you.  They're by fairies, for fairies.  (Granted, you may actually be a fairy.  In which case, never mind.)  From Little Nobody, 1875

They don't write TV shows this way anymore.  Spoken to a severed hand that was stolen from the king of the gypsies: "Released by the guardians of the chains and blessed by the custodians of the twelve days."  The twelve days of Christmas?

The setting mapped on the endpapers is even divided into acres, as in "the Hundred Acre Wood," in this rather blatant "tribute" to Winnie the Pooh, two decades later.  We decoded the young reader's squiggle.  It says, "Christopher Robin did it first."  From Poo and the Baby Bunny Rabbit by Edwin Megargee, 1947.

The entire audience is led by the hand into Fairyland at the end of "God Pan Forgotten."  From The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays for Children by John Farrar, 1923.

"People want to feel a sense of what’s normal again" said the ad agency responsible for the band Ratt appearing in a new Geico commercial.  If this is the new normal, we've finally slipped into a better parallel universe.

"Don't leave it to chance ... Vote Divine Right."  From The Martlet, 1969.

The problem with this book title, of course, is that "Thinking about it won’t make it so" (Marsha Stopa).

It's been said that "The author should be invisible every step of the way" (Angela Ackerman).  And that includes the title page, apparently.  This page is exactly as scanned by Google Books: "The Works of."

This old Dutch safety poster reminded us of our encounter with a horrific deformity in the glass of an antique mirror.  

"He sees phoniness in nearly everything."  Irving Layton, in The Martlet, 1965.

"Terrible pamphlets" don't arise in Dark Shadows until episode 725.

Here's very important advice on how donning a banana costume, sitting in hot tubs, and not wearing sweatpants in public can save you from being a colossal failure.  From The Gateway, 2014.

Well, I find that you'll find gold is where is where you find it.  If all goes well, they'll find that I'll find that you'll find gold is where you find it.  From The Film Daily, 1938.

Here's a concise explanation of why a finite mind cannot comprehend the Infinite but still may apprehend or conceive its existence.  From Inquiry Into the Origin of the Belief in Predestination by Fredric William Cronhelm, 1860.

Not only do we learn here that bachelor guests don't mind a haunted bedroom, but we also learn where sheet ghosts come from: haunted rooms converted into linen cupboards.  From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer, 1891.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

Here is revealed why we never leave the house without an umbrella or parasol -- to be ready to cash in on super value showers.  From The Gateway, 1978.

"One man’s harbinger is another man’s event."

—Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery