MJJG: intertextual link-o-mania - 115 al fine
Thomas Eckhardt
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Fri Jan 15 15:05:06 UTC 2021
pg. 112 in the Penguin Modern Classics edition:
"1 of these days 1 of our sons, perhaps the son of a Polish immigrant,
will emerge from some steel town in Pennsylvania and mount a turd on the
wall of a museum and make it stick. . .and when you ask him what it is
he will put on his dark glasses and snub you the way you did us."
This is, more or less, Andy Warhol, no?
> 8) pg 135 - _Moby-Dick_
> (Musclewhite horrified that a black person dared to interpret it)
pg. 114: An anachronistic reference to C.L.R. James' "Mariners,
Renegades and Castaways" (1953), perhaps? Or are there other candidates?
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