Tuesday 2 June 2020

Two Literary References

Operation Luna.

(i) "We could either come along or stand where we were and waste our sweatiness on the desert air." (6, p. 56)

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard 
-copied from here.

For the whole poem, see here.

For Alan Moore on genre fiction and the graveyard poets, who include Gray, see:

The Origin Of Genre Fiction?

(ii) "'...that line from Dunsany - 'beyond the fields we know.'" (5, p. 46) 

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

You are well read, indeed! I would not have thought of associating Steve's "...and waste our sweatiness" with that line from Gray's poem. An ingenious allusion made by Anderson!

Ad astra! Sean