Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again; How oft hereafter rising shall she lookThrough this same Garden after me -- in vain!
― alimosina, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
will except
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
On reading this thread I wondered about Out of the Silent Planet, and came upon this from Wikipedia about That Hideous Strength:
The novel's title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, also known as The Monarche. The couplet in question, "The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length", refers to the Tower of Babel.
Out of the Silent Planet itself sounds like it alludes, but its source eludes me.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
what a great thread
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
so does this phenom tell us anything about anything
It tells us why the title is sometimes far better written than anything else in the story.― Why You Wanna Treeship Borad? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, May 29, 2016 5:56 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
i noticed three book titles while watching joel coen's "the tragedy of macbeth" the other week.
only one applies here: ray bradbury's "something wicked this way comes"
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(the other two were faulkner's "the sound and the fury" and javier marías's "a heart so white")
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
the line before 'something wicked this way comes' is an agatha christie book (but not SF, obv)
― koogs, Monday, 6 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Sort of the opposite of this phenomenon: I think it's interesting that Station Eleven starts with a performance of King Lear, and one of the main characters is in that performance and ends up part of a traveling theater troupe that performs Shakespeare plays, and yet the quotation she has tattooed on her arm - "Survival is insufficient," which becomes a kind of unofficial tagline for the book - comes from Star Trek, even though there is a famous quotation from Lear that makes exactly the same point.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link