Poop-deck Pappy swayed back & forth in concert

Poop-deck Pappy swayed back & forth in concert with the rising waves. It was right before the storm. These were the moments he cherished...and feared. The story began then...

to approach the stern of the ship. The prologue climbed over the taffrail onto the poop, followed by chapter 1. Chapter 2 grasped the rudder. Thunder drowned out Pappy's screams as

down a very slippery slope. Unfortunately for Captain Wrightblock and Poop-deck Pappy, the sideplot rowboat was dashed against the rocks of reality when a Brevity Editor got hold

of some combustible shorthand and failed to use it responsibly. With that, Captain Wrightblock and crew were washed ashore to Allegory Island, which was home to the most venomous

Satirists, one of which was Jonathan Swift. Rabelais lived there too. They shared a two flat and lived on different floors. Who else lived there, I wondered.

Mark Twain rented the basement & Miguel de Cervantes slept on the lawn, & were forever engaging in verbal pugilistics as Cervantes was so magniloqently verbose & Twain so blunt.

'Goddamnit man," Twain sneered angrily, "can't you just agree to disagree?!" Cervantes chucked a rock at Twain's basement level window from the lawn and yelled "NEVER!"

Tolstoi heard that "NEVER" from over a hedge as he was passing in his troika. He pulled back on the reins a bit too vigorously and the troika skittered into Twain as he exited from

the Volga Queen. Mark Twain did a loop-de-loop as he counted his winnings. Luckily he landed in a nest of gentlefolk atop a cherry tree. Dr. Chekhov checked his nose, just in case.