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.
Poetry and Poets
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 (1.40)
- John Milton, Lycidas (1.41) (4.3)
- Paul Robert Lieder, and Robert Morss Lovett, eds. British Poetry and Prose (1.41)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (4.3)
- John Keats, Endymion (5.74) (5.77)
Historical Figures
- García (Wilhelm doesn't say which one, but for sure it's not Jerry!) (1.13)
- Edward VII (1.13)
- Cyrus the Great (1.13)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1.96)
- Carl A. Swanson (1.96)
- Euclid (4.51)
- Sir Isaac Newton (4.51) (5.36)
- Aristotle (4.77) (4.102)
- The Detroit Purple Gang (4.78)
- Alfred Korzybski (4.102)
- Sigmund Freud (4.102)
- W.H. Sheldon (4.102)
- Abraham (5.36)
- Moses (5.36)
- Jesus (5.36)
- Albert Einstein (5.36)
- Vladimir Lenin (5.36)
- Adolf Hitler (5.36)
- John D. Rockefeller (5.41)
- Charles Ebbets (5.23)
- Theodore Roosevelt (6.41) (6.82) (6.83) (6.84) (6.85) (6.86)
- Winston Churchill (6.77) (6.79) (6.82)
Old-Timey Pop Culture References
- Milton Sills (1.87)
- Conway Tearle (1.87)
- Jack Mulhall (1.87)
- George Bancroft (1.87)
- George Raft (1.87)
- Edward G. Robinson (1.89)
- James Cagney (1.89)
- William Powell (1.91)
- Buddy Rogers (1.91)