lid quotes

   Me pal 'e trots 'er up an'does the toff 'E allus wus a bloke fer showin'off. 'This 'ere's Doreen,''e sez.'This 'ere's the Kid.' I dips me lid.

- C(larence Michael) J(ames) Dennis
  Songs of a Sentimental Bloke,'The Intro'. Bill persuades his friend to introduce him to a girl.

   Then down came the lidthe day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo.World-politics stepped in, and a war was started whichhasnot ended yet: 'a war to end war'.But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

-Jose Lezama Lima
  Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an  Art-Less Society'.