But no, you don't have to get all the allusions to get the book, which is, in part, an earnest and self-implicating jab at the kinds of people who do care about that sort of thing.
(Yeah, Maf, you diminutive teller of shaggy dog stories, I got that allusion in your pretentious title).
"I plan my day around their school," she said, inside her daughters' school — one of the contingency sites — on the city's North Side, where one sign read, "Your kids deserve what Rahm's kids get," an allusion to the mayor's children's attendance at a private school.
The puns pile up and the entendres triple and quadruple in this exhibition, and few people who were not denizens of the Los Angeles art scene in the late 1990's are likely to get every allusion.
His comedy is as broad as a slap on the back, but it also appeals to highbrows who get his allusions and enjoy his acting out the kind of shenanigans that they learned, at sixteen, to suppress.
We were flattered — at least I was — not only by Moynihan's willingness to make a spectacle of himself for our amusement but also by his assumption that we would "get" his allusions: Lenin; "socialist realist" portraiture; the sealed train to St . Petersburgin 1917; Edmund Wilson.
We were flattered at least I was—not only by Moynihan's willingness to make a spectacle of himself for our amusement but also by his assumption that we would "get" his allusions: Lenin; "socialist realist" portraiture; the sealed train to St . Petersburgin 1917; Edmund Wilson.
But, like any good literary work, you don't need to get all these allusions to enjoy the books: the ox might as well refer to the burly animal, the books' themes to the four seasons, and the cutely colorful covers to their contents.
While the Music Room Crew back at my secondary school were wigging out to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, I just couldn't get past the Tolkienisms and mythological allusions.
