That depends. If I were to go to Amazon I’d find one 300 page book and 4 movies. On the other hand, in the story the book magically continually writes itself.
Thinking of the building as a “work”; there probably isn’t a great deal of singing at “Sing Sing”.
Is there a dead mocking bird in “To Kill a Mockingbird?”
That’s nice but the German title really undermines your story. If you’re right and virgin should be parsed as an adjective and not a noun, it should be ‘Die jungfräuliche Maschine’.
There is. His name is Tom Robinson, and he’s only metaphorically a mockingbird, but it’s his death to which the title refers.
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men features many men, but no mice.
There’s a whole scene with a dead mouse right at the beginning, which sets up Lenny’s obsession with petting (and killing) soft things.
The band “Ben Folds Five” was a group with 3 members.
The classic rock song “Listen to the Music” has the band singing over the title, so you can’t actually listen to the music
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” - it’s not like Yoko was grossly overweight or anything.
A rather obscure one: many years ago (early 90s?) Mandy Patinkin was on … the Tonight Show? … and performed a song he had written. The title of the song was “Beat Out that Rhythm on a Drum.” The song consisted entirely of piano and vocals.
Maroon 5 is not maroon.
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware’s masterwork.
**That’s Entertainment **by the British group The Jam. Paul Weller (singer and songwriter) illustrates the mundane, the petty, the banal, the squalid vissicitudes of London life all happening around him before the ironic chorus of ‘That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment.’
A great Jam song although in my opinion inferior to Going Underground. However, since it is the only Jam song in the Rolling Stone magazine top 500, possibly the best known in America.
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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Once Carrie leaves her sister Minnie’s house, the only mention of Minnie is a dream she has when Carrie agrees to live with Charles Drouet without the benefit of marriage. There is NO mention of Carrie’s family throughout the rest of book.
For deliberate, genuine irony:
I’m Not in Love by 10cc
I Don’t Miss You by Shoes
Since “The Three Musketeers” is pretty much about what happens after the fourth Musketeer joins you have to wonder why the author called the book that.
I saw that episode. It was Letterman.