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	Archy and Mehitabel
		Archy was a talking cockroach and Mehitabel was an alley cat.
		Due to a tragic mishap of destiny, Archy, once a great poet, was reincarnated as a roach, but maintained the poet's soul, which he poured out in verse each night by hopping from key to key on Mr.
		He was an author and a playwright, and he published archy's poems in a column he wrote for such distinguished newspapers as the New York Sun and the New York Tribune.
	www.krazy.com /archy.htm (299 words)

	Archy and mehitabel
		archy (whose name was always written in lower case) was a cockroach who had been a free-style poet in a previous life, and he took to writing stories of his life on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left.
		archy's best friend was an alley cat named "mehitabel," and the two of them shared a series of day-to-day adventures that made satiric commentary on daily life in the city during the era of the early 20th century.
		Because he was a cockroach, archy was unable to reach the shift key on the typewriter, and so all of his verse was written without capitalization or punctuation.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ar/archy_and_mehitabel.html (302 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		archy and mehitabel is the title of a series of newspaper columns written by Don Marquis beginning in 1916.
		Archy's best friend was an alley cat named "Mehitabel," and the two of them shared a series of day-to-day adventures that made satiric commentary on daily life in the city during the 1910's and 20's.
		Because he was a cockroach, Archy was unable to operate the shift key on the typewriter (he jumped on each key to type; since using shift requires two keys to be pressed simultaneously, he physically could not use capitals), and so all of his verse was written without capitalization or punctuation.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=archy_and_mehitabel (444 words)

	Archy Mehitabel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'expression is the need of my soul' - so writes archy, by hurling himself on the keys of the newspaperman's typewriter, one painful lower case letter at a time.
		He believes himself to be a long departed poet whose soul has migrated into the body of a cockroach, most common and despised of city bugs.
		Laugh and cry with archy and mehitabel and their cronies - assorted tomcats, moths, bugs and kittens - as they scavenge and scamper through the Big City, singing, dancing and 'rioting across the roof of the world'.
	www.surreycountyarts.org.uk /Drama/archy_mehitabel.html (160 words)

	Movie-List: DVD: Shinbone Alley
		archy's wonder at the passions and the drama of life at the lowest level is a great way to comment on life at marquis' level.
		Mehitabel steals the picture with her sassy, liberated philosophy of life, graceful dancing, and lively singing{ her voice is charmingly supplied by Carol Channing}.
		One of the story`s running plots involves Archy`s unrequited feelings for her, and you really do find yourself rooting for him: his wistful efforts to help her find a place as a house cat are constantly thwarted by her show biz ambitions and her many boyfriends.
	www.movie-list.com /onvideo-ca/shop.php?c=1&n=952768&i=B000FUF76C&x=Shinbone_Alley (1123 words)

	Archy And Mehitabel: Echoes Of Archy/Carnival Of The Animals - Various Artists, Music Downloads - Online
		Archy And Mehitabel: Echoes Of Archy/Carnival Of The Animals FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony.
		The cockroach was named archy, and he was obsessed with a cat named mehitabel (he couldn't be expected to capitalize anything, under the circumstances).
		Archy is something of a philosopher, and he is always trying to rehabilitate mehitabel, an alley cat who acts like one.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/545/Various-Artists/Archy-And-Mehitabel-Echoes-Of-Archy-Carnival-Of-The-Animals/500000000000020014082.html (320 words)

	warty bliggins the toad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		[archy was a cockroach who wrote his poems on a typewriter by falling on the keys one at a time.
		Since archy couldn't reach the capital letter bar, everything was in lower case.
		Archy and Mehitabel is the collection of archy's works, and is published by Doubleday --- and deserves your attention and love.]
	www.ralphmag.org /archyR.html (88 words)

	archy and mehitabel - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		The name of the feature is usually capitalized the way Archy would type them, i.e., "archy and mehitabel" (he also can't handle the ampersand, and has trouble with punctuation all around), but the characters themselves are Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the alley cat.
		A cat was mentioned in Archy's manuscript, but it was months before she had a name and personality.
		Mehitabel, it turned out, was the reincarnation of Cleopatra, as well as of any number of cheap floozies since then, who have trouble maintaining the dignity that was once theirs by natural right.
	www.toonopedia.com /mehitabl.htm (975 words)

	East Bay - Arts & Entertainment - Archy and Mehitabel - eastbayexpress.com
		Archy, a sensitive cockroach with a writer's ear, types in lower-case for purely practical reasons--he's too small to reach the shift key and the letters simultaneously.
		This is also the premise of the archy and mehitabel staged by the Masquers Playhouse this month.
		We see that Archy (Robert Love), who loves Mehitabel (Shay Oglesby-Smith), wants her to give up her wild life with tomcats and take a job as a respectable house cat.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /2001-04-13/culture/archy-and-mehitabel (806 words)

	UPNE - archyology ii (the final dig): Don Marquis
		In this second and final volume "composed" by archy, the literary cockroach, the wonderfully whimsical insect and his fractious feline friend, mehitabel, engage in misadventures large and small and comment with quirky accuracy on the common state of humanity.
		archy supposedly worked at Marquis's newsroom typewriter at night, diving headfirst onto individual keys to tap out columns; unable to use the shift key, of course, Archy settled for lower-case letters and dispensed with punctuation entirely.
		In other episodes archy saves the US fleet from a German U-boat attack, muses with a spider about humanity's inhumanity to insects, stows away on a freighter to London, and climbs to the top of the Washington Monument.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-87451-853-9.html (381 words)

	Show Plot: archy & mehitabel: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for Licensing
		Mehitabel admits she's had her ups and downs, but she's still game; a plucky puss is she.
		Archy attempts to block the seduction--getting a whiff of Mehitabel's old bent toward decadence--but Tyrone is brimming with charm, and she buys it hook, line and sinker.
		Archy picks up the song walking alone along the lonely streets, regretting that the fire that once lit up her eyes has diminished in her current, comfortable and secure situation.
	www.mtishows.com /show_plot.asp?ID=000008 (1465 words)

	Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, Hermione, the Old Soak and more
		For a superb introduction to Don's The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel, click here to read a review by e b white at www.donmarquis.org/ebwhite.htm.
		Archy reflects on bars, breeding, and his royal ancestry.
		Archy and Mehitabel live on stage in Australia
	www.donmarquis.org (902 words)

	The Old Soak (1926) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This column had several recurring characters, all of whom are now forgotten except for the (lower-case) archy and mehitabel, who inspired the Broadway musical 'Shinbone Alley'.
		That fellow archy was a cockroach poet -- or a human poet reincarnated in cockroach form -- who chronicled the exploits of himself and alley cat mehitabel by flinging himself headfirst onto the keys of Marquis's manual typewriter.
		The tales of archy and mehitabel are so clever that it pains me to report that Don Marquis copied this premise from an earlier author: John Kendrick Bangs had previously used the idea of an insect who communicates with humans via typewriting.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0017229 (497 words)

	UPNE - archyology: don marquis
		"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal.
		A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 30s.
		Although his tales appeared in lower case, his views achieved a level grand enough to solidify Marquis' reputation as an American humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and Ring Lardner.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-87451-745-1.html (396 words)

	Book: Archy and Mehitabel - UsingEnglish.com
		Of all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life--except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature.
		Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he communicates with Don Marquis by leaping upon the keys of the columnist's typewriter.
		In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/0385094787.html (272 words)

	Archy and Mehitabel
		Archy and Mehitabel are littermates, born August 1988 and members of my family since they were about 10 weeks old.
		In late 2001, at age 13, Archy was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, chronic renal failure, and hypertension.
		His condition is being managed with medication and fluid therapy, and as of this writing, 12 months post-diagnosis, he's doing extremely well.
	www.specialneedspets.org /archy.htm (147 words)

	The Life and Times of Don Marquis
		Today he is remembered mostly for his stories of Archy and Mehitabel, a lowercase cockroach and a toujours gai alley cat, but in his lifetime Marquis was known equally well for the Old Soak -- a hip-flask philosopher who struggled to endure the dry days of Prohibition.
		Besides giving him a humorus outlet for blunt social criticism, Archy and Mehitabel and the other characters solved a recurring problem for Marquis: Many of their stories were written in advance, and they easily filled his column when he was running short of copy.
		Archy's wide-ranging commentary was especially useful, and its short, broken lines of type were explained away by the obvious challenges of a cockroach trying to operate a typewriter.
	www.donmarquis.com /don (1629 words)

	Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: archy and mehitabel and Something to Dance About
		Archy, the aforementioned cockroach with the soul of a poet, pecked it out overnight; at least, that's what Marquis reported in his column.
		In 1953, Kleinsinger turned to archy and mehitabel, working with little-known lyricist Joe Darion (who in 1965 would pen "The Impossible Dream").
		This is not the Carol of Dolly Levi, mind you; this is a decade earlier, when she was still a slinky-if-larger-than-life siren.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/87973.html (1027 words)

	Book Information: archy and mehitabel :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		In a previous incarnation Archy the Cockroach was a free-verse poet, while his companion Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life, claims to have been Cleopatra.
		Archy records their songs and observations on the boss’s typewriter late at night.
		But he is not strong enough to make capital letters so it all comes out lower case.
	www.iblist.com /book.php?id=12809 (85 words)

	The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel - Don Marquis - Penguin Group (USA)
		Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain.
		These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was once a poet, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra.
		The antics of these two immortal characters are now made available for the first time in their original order of publication in this unique, comprehensive collection, which features many poems never before reprinted.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780143039754,00.html (239 words)

	the blog eclectic
		Archy is a cockroach, into whose small body was reincarnated the soul of a poet.
		(Archy “is”, because he lives on in the pages of four books of collected stories, still in print after 75 years.) Archy lived in Marquis’ newspaper office, and at night hammered out stories by hurling himself onto the keys of Marquis’ typewriter.
		Mehitabel tells a skeptical Archy that she is the reincarnated soul of Cleopatra.
	www.rigoletto.com /blogger.html (12232 words)

	Show Information: archy & mehitabel: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for ...
		It’s “archy” (he’s too small to hold down the shift key), poet, philosopher, moralist and futile worshipper of “mehitabel,” the alley cat.
		This bizarre, highly original musical takes us into the streets of the big city as archy tries hopelessly to bring the “toujours gai” mehitabel off the back fence and into a respectable home as a housecat.
		Versatile actors play the various urbane, non-human city dwellers we encounter along the way, suggesting their animal characteristics without explicit costumes.
	www.mtishows.com /show_home.asp?id=000008 (331 words)

	archy and mehitabel
		He says he tried to kill them off but received so many howls of protests of readers that he continually had to resurrect them.
		He says that he gathered a few of Archy's communications into a book.
		And in fact, thinking back, there is a huge section that is basically mehitabel - like when she goes to hollywood and returns with the platinum blond kittens and more.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/funlight/48611 (408 words)

	Recommended Reading (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel - Don Marquis.
		Archy is a free verse poet who dies and is reincarnated as a cockroach.
		He records his thoughts by leaping onto the keys of Don Marquis's typewriter at night.
	www.heptune.com /Recread.html (1211 words)

	The lives and times of Archy and Mehitab… by Don Marquis \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lives and times of Archy and Mehitab… by Don Marquis
		The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel;
		A redundant volume combining the first two of Don Marquis' "archy and mehitabel" books.
	www.librarything.com /catalog/64732 (139 words)

	Twinstuff.Com's Amazon Store: Music : Archy And Mehitabel: Carnival of the Animals
		Music : Archy And Mehitabel: Carnival of the Animals
		Archy And Mehitabel - A Back-Alley Opera - Carol Channing
		Archyology II : (The Final Dig) : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
	www.twinstuff.com /cgi-bin/twinstuff_amazon_feed.cgi?input_item=B0002739QI&input_search_type=AsinSearch (152 words)

	The Biography Channel - Biography Result
		He studied at Knox College, Galesburg, IL, and became a well-known literary journalist in New York City, writing for The Sun.
		He achieved fame as a comic writer in his column ‘The Sun Dial’ with the popular archy and mehitabel (1927), and archys life of mehitabel (1933), which follow the fortunes of Archy the cockroach who cannot reach the typewriter's shift key (hence the lower-case titles), and Mehitabel, an alley cat.
		Among his other works are poetry, prose, and plays, including The Old Soak (1916, dramatized 1926).
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9399836&page=print (115 words)

	Amazon.com: Archy and Mehitabel: Books: Don Marquis
		Archyology II : (The Final Dig) : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
		Archy And Mehitabel: Carnival of the Animals ~ Various Artists
		The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life.
	www.amazon.com /Archy-Mehitabel-Don-Marquis/dp/0385094787 (406 words)

	Book Review: The Annotated Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis
		she was your regular society girl was our mehitabel boss only being inconvenienced in a minor way by her natural inclinations like motherhood but if she had one weakness aside from her pride and desire to always be a lady it was for the men folk of her species
		now of course archy working at a newspaper as he did had to give his readers more diverse reading matter than only that pertaining to the life of a cat no matter how interesting mehitabel thought herself there was news happening in the world at the time as important as her story
		periodically archy would go into the field to report from washington d c he found that the insects there were so plentiful that nobody even noticed another cockroach he reported that in the capital building no attention was paid to him because there were so many other insects around
	www.blogcritics.org /archives/2007/01/16/040643.php (2234 words)

	Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, the Old Soak and more
		He won early fame as the chronicler of the Old Soak -- a genial but determined foe of Prohibition -- and lasting fame as the beloved "boss" of a cockroach wise beyond his years and an alley cat dancing through her ninth life: the immortal Archy and Mehitabel.
		IN THE NEWS: GARRISON KEILLOR regularly reads Archy sketches on his public radio program, "The Writer's Alamanc." Click here for a link, then scroll down to the Sunday, Jan. 28, entry and enjoy.
		PENGUIN CLASSICS has published "The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel," containing some sketches never seen in print since Don wrote them in his newspaper columns 90 years ago.
	www.donmarquis.com (194 words)

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