How to put your literary knowledge to good use – and have some fun while you're at it

[Ragnar Freund]

gone.

[Charles Darnay]

(tried this one at a party of English majors....several failures, one success)

At a party or somewhere where drinking is going on, go up to someone and excitedly explain "Ireland expects that every man this day will do his duty." If said person's reaction is to go for a drink, he/she is someone you want to keep around.