Brilliance. Among other things, Mark Twain wrote that the “rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction”

require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

and

require that the author shall say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.

Sheer brilliance from The Onion.

“According to research that hasn’t yet been performed … ” “In a controversial move, popular sicence journal The Daily Mail … ” “The scientist, who doesn’t actually use Twitter, said … ” Wonderful spoof article by Martin Robbins.

More brilliant book titles, including The History and Social Influence of the Potato (I don’t know why potatoes are funny, but they are.)

bytesushi:

The full list is wonderful. I particularly like The Treatment of Final Vowels in Early Neo-Babylonian and Understand Your Tortoise, though I’ll admit that at least one of those sounds as though it might actually be quite interesting …