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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart takes its title from Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”
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Writers have gotten lots of mileage out of that Yeats poem…
[QUOTE=Max Torque]
Apparently, this movie coming out soon called The Last Mimzy got its title from the story it’s based upon, Mimsy Were The Borogoves, which is a line from Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”
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I didn’t know that. Makes me want to go see it. But mimsy is an adjective. Shouldn’t it be “The Last Borogrove”?
**Through a Glass Darkly ** is from 1 Corinthians 13:12.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
That chapter is chockful of notable quotes so others may have been used elsewhere.
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke]
Writers have gotten lots of mileage out of that Yeats poem…
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Even Robert Bork! Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline: Bork, Robert H.: 9780060573119: Amazon.com: Books
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I didn’t know that. Makes me want to go see it. But mimsy is an adjective. Shouldn’t it be “The Last Borogrove”?
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The Borogroves are notoriously shy. Probably wouldn’t play ball with the studio.
One I should have remember but didn’t so I am bringing this back.
The longest running play in history Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap was taken from Hamlet. When the king asked Hamlet what the name of the play that was going to be performed was, Hamlet said “Mousetrap”, so Christie took the title and put it to her play.
Ben Bova’s “As on a Darkling Plain” comes from a line in the poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold.
ETA: D.G. Compton’s “Farewell, Earth’s Bliss” comes from the poem In Times of Pestilence by Thomas Nashe.
This poem was also referenced in the Martin Cruz Smith novel “Nightwing.”
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke]
Wilfred Owen’s poem “S.I.W.”
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Owen’s (arguably) most famous poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, is a reference to Horace.