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"So are all the literary allusions..."
Posted by maeldwyn on 10-21-02 at 05:30 PM
part of the solution or are they just the call signs of pretensious writers?Those I have noticed so far:
Jim A. Prufrock - Taken from the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Elliot. The first episode also quotes this poem.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle - The population of Push's rigid schedule and carbon copy quality seem to be taken right from this book
Peter Pan - For obvious reasons
What's the deal? Have I missed any that others caught?
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- literary allusions,trigirl, 05:06 PM, 10-22-02
- RE: literary allusions,sittem, 05:54 PM, 10-22-02
- RE: literary allusions,maeldwyn, 02:09 PM, 10-24-02
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"literary allusions"
Posted by trigirl on 10-22-02 at 05:06 PM
I have read and re-read the Elliot poem and am still not sure how it fits.I haven't read "A Wrinkle in Time" is it good?
"RE: literary allusions"
Posted by sittem on 10-22-02 at 05:54 PM
I loved "Wrinkle in Time". I used to read it to the fam while we were driving in the car when the church we attended was 40 minutes away. We read many books this way inlcuding many by L'engle.
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"RE: literary allusions"
Posted by maeldwyn on 10-24-02 at 02:09 PM
"A Wrinkle in Time" was fantastic, along with the other two books of the series that I read: "A Wind in the Door" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet." Those books were like the Harry Potter series for me when I was much younger.
I'm not sure of the relevance of the poem either. I don't know if they quoted it to reinforce the name (Jim A. Prufrock) and hint at clues in the poem or if it just a red herring.