I am a fugitive from a daisy chain gang.

The line appears in a 1933 New Yorker book review written by Dorothy Parker (under her magazine byline). She was criticizing Tiffany Thayer’s novel “An American Girl” and, as a punchline, proposed a more sensational alternative title that parodied the then-recent film title “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.”

It’s a sarcastic bit of wordplay: by swapping “chain” for “daisy chain,” Parker implies the book’s sexual content is both contrived and unappealing, and she mocks the author by suggesting a lurid, attention-grabbing title that still undercuts the book.

Only in the friendliest spirit is it suggested that for later editions he might care to change his present rather pastel title to the possibly more provocative “I Am a Fugitive from a Daisy Chain Gang.”