Trane
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Post by Trane on Jul 8, 2014 12:27:12 GMT -5
Dicey's has been mentioned before, though, in WDYSHL. I had taken it to be a joke on Macy's. You're probably right. I just thought it was too odd when I read that bit. That and a drifter was talking about it and I thought it was being way too obvious then.
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Post by Dante on Jul 12, 2014 11:57:42 GMT -5
It could be a reference to both; the window-washing I think sounds like at the very least an important coincidence.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jul 12, 2014 21:59:48 GMT -5
Oops, sorry I forgot to reply, Trane On page 86, in the Silver spoon story the drifter mentions washing windows at Diceys Department store. There is a children's book called Homecoming, about four siblings who travel the road by themselves in order to search for home/their mother . The main character is a girl named Dicey who earns money a few times by washing windows. I'm pretty sure he was referencing that along with a drifter talking about it.Thanks for the tip! It sounds like it could be an intended reference, I'll include it in the main post and credit you
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Post by Trane on Jul 22, 2014 12:15:46 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by tc on Nov 11, 2017 19:23:42 GMT -5
"Vanished Message" p. 159: "Theodora had simply poured a helping of Schoenberg Cereal onto the bureau..."
Arnold Schoenberg was a 20th century Austrian composer who wrote 12-tone music. He arranged the twelve notes C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B into a series or "tone row", and base his composition of this series. This was referred to as "serialism" or "serial music." "Schoenberg Cereal" is a play on "Schoenberg Serial."
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Post by tc on Nov 11, 2017 19:38:56 GMT -5
Lois Dressing - in case people haven't spotted this yet, it's an anagram of the well-known literary and science-fiction writer Doris Lessing. I suspect 'Yamgraz' relates to something in her work, but haven't been able to trace it. She did write about issues related to colonialism, though. This is probably quite a reach, but one anagram of "Yamgraz" is "Magyarz". Lessing left the British Communist Party in response to the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The Hungarian word for the Hungarian people is "Magyars."
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 11, 2017 20:18:17 GMT -5
Thanks, tc! I've updated the main post with your findings. I don't remember whether I noticed the cereal/serial pun before, but if I didn't I don't know how I missed it. Good stuff.
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Post by Dante on Nov 12, 2017 3:39:29 GMT -5
Schoenberg Cereal featured in ?2, and its corresponding reference I'm sure was noticed then.
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Post by Hermes on Nov 12, 2017 10:15:03 GMT -5
The cereal joke is found in Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It causes a lot of distress in Vienna when the Schoenberg food factory stopped making tonic, and made cereal instead.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 12, 2017 10:53:23 GMT -5
Schoenberg Cereal featured in ?2, and its corresponding reference I'm sure was noticed then. Ah yes, I found the place where I pointed out the reference. For book ?2 none of us did a single-post reference guide, unfortunately, so it's a bit more disorganized.
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Post by lougoubrius on Oct 22, 2019 20:49:41 GMT -5
Does anyone know what movie (with "all those fools singing in French") was referred to in Violent Butcher? (Or did anyone post something here about that and I missed it?) It's Casablanca. Travel papers are hidden in the piano in Rick's club. French rebels sing La Marseillaise to stick it to the Nazis.
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