The next, she is patting everyone on the back or shoulder, guffawing as she drops references to "Love Boat," "I Love Lucy" and "F Troop".
(Intellectuals are for real. In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like "fulgent" and "supercilious").
"I think for women characters, it's so important that what they're feeling is reflected in the aesthetic choices they're making," said Ms. Jones, who studied English at Oxford University and drops references to Roland Barthes as easily as to Topshop.
In a running gag, Pynchon drops references to published accounts of the Chums' past exploits: "The Chums of Chance at Krakatoa," "The Chums of Chance and the Wrath of the Yellow Fang," "The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico" and so on.
He parodies Eliot ("Bukowski's old, Bukowski's old / he wears the bottoms of his beercans / rolled"), drops references to Mann (in "Slouching Toward Nirvana," there is a poem titled "disorder and early sorrow"), debates the relative merits of Turgenev and Tolstoy (he prefers the former).
Using history as horror, "The People v. O.J. Simpson" drops references that spur dread in viewers familiar with the case — when we meet Mark Fuhrman, when Marcia Clark wants a haircut, when trying on gloves is contemplated.
