When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literature and Philosophy
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1.2.27)
- Le Temps (1.3.26)
- The Saturday Evening Post (1.3.26)
- The New York Herald (1.4.18)
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1.10.45)
- Lewis Carroll (1.13.10.)
- Jules Gabriel Verne (1.13.10)
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué Undine (1.13.10)
- D.H. Lawrence (1.13.15)
- Louisa M. Alcott (1.17.2)
- Madame de Ségur (1.17.2)
- Sergei Diaghileff (1.20.55)
- Brentano’s (1.20.77)
- Edna Ferber (2.20.17)
- Michael Arlen (2.21.16)
- John Keats (2.22.10)
Historical References
- Georg Carl Johann Antheil (1.2.27)
- Ivan the Terrible (1.3.27)
- François-Auguste-René Rodin (1.4.6)
- John Tyler, Jr. (1.12.12)
- Ulysses S. Grant (1.13.9, 2.1.15, 3.13.3)
- Duncan Phyfe (1.12.16)
- John Cheyne and William Stokes (1.21.26)
- Sigmund Freud (2.1.3, 2.13.40)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1.2.12)
- Carl Jung (1.2.12, 2.13.40)
- Emil Kraepelin (2.2.4)
- "Mad" Anthony Wayne (2.10.11)
- Mistinguett (2.10.32)
- Picasso (2.10.32)
- Paul Eugen Bleuler (2.13.40)
- Auguste-Henri Forel (2.13.40)
- Alfred Adler (2.13.40)
- Chopin (2.14.17)
- Lord Byron (3.4.6)
- Buddha (3.4.11)
- Stalin (3.4.11)
- Anita Loos (3.7.65)
Pop Culture
- Constance Talmadge (1.5.22)
- "Au Clair de la Lune" (1.6.27)
- "Yes, We Have No Bananas," (1.14.30)
- Fatty Arbuckle (1.25.12)
- "Hindustan" (2.5.22)
- "Why Do They Call Them Babies?"(2.5.22)
- "I’m Glad I Can Make You Cry." (2.5.22)
- "So Long, Letty" (2.5.38)
- Pas sur la bouche (2.10.32)
- Norma Talmadge (3.1.13)
- "The Wedding of the Painted Doll"
- Ronald Colman (3.5.64)
- John Held (3.5.73)