The book is perhaps too odd to ever quite be a classic, but in any sane literary firmament it would count as a major mooncalf anticlassic. |
Cinemagoers who are willing to pay extra to watch James Cameron-style spectacle may balk at having to spend those extra pounds to watch Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan make mooncalf eyes at one another. |
And a mooncalf he remained, while acquiring wealth enough to wear London suits, travel through Europe, buy big houses, divorce two women, and get radium treatments for his face that ravaged it further. |
Only a mooncalf, with a porridge-bowl instead of a head, could have mistaken these remarks. |
I turned and saw a knight, who asked me why I gaped like a mooncalf at the torn bird. |
But if Ribisi is famous for any one thing he's done, it's Phoebe's mooncalf brother in Friends. |