There are allusions as well to troubling sensations.
How can such preoccupied parents even grasp Phoebe's literary allusions, as constant as her moon, much less admit that their daughter is troubled?
What began as a "Simpsons -style Simpsons -styley hasituation a vocomedyry of cutaway gags and pop-cultural allusions, as well as whas its crevolvedSeth MacFarlane, calls a "post-P.C. tone".
The truth, of course, is vastly more complex: the cabinet of curiosities was always already a web of immaterial hunches and links and allusions as well as a real space full of real things.
Here is Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, addressing God, his "gazelle": The conceits are taken from Arabic but as Cole shows, the poem throbs with Biblical allusions as well, and the effect is subtly polyphonic.
That means that beneath and within its frame of pseudo-baroque figuration, you'll hear, as Schnittke's biographer Alexander Ivashkin says, "the transformation of a cheerful song chorale of Soviet schoolchildren, a nostalgic atonal serenade, quasi-Corellian allusions" – as well as Schnittke's grandmother's favourite tango, and quotations from his film scores.
But even he is often terse and replete with abbreviations and unelaborated allusions, as are the thousands of commentaries and books of scholarly correspondence that accrued over the ages.Talmud students inevitably wasted time barking up wrong trees or beating paths that had been beaten before.
In court filings RDR argues that Mr. Vander Ark's book "provides a significant amount of original analysis and commentary concerning everything from insights into the personality of key characters, relationships among them, the meaning of various historical and literary allusions, as well as internal inconsistencies and mistakes in the novels".
