Humor being the courtesy of despair, engineers referred to HR as the KGB or, for a more literary reference, the Bene Gesserit, monikers that knowingly imputed an efficiency to a department that offered anything but.
In the early 14th century, the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri referred to a clock in his Paradiso; considered to be the first literary reference to a clock that struck the hours.
"A literary reference for Spurs?" writes Ivan Victor.
My solemnity is rewarded with a literary reference.
But there is a better literary reference than John O'Hara.
Pick your literary reference: Is that more Orwellian, or Kafkaesque?
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Popular music has never been averse to a little literary reference.
This forced literary reference, which runs through the movie, is its one glaringly off-key note.
But it's mainly the viewer who is taken aback at such an overused literary reference.
The first, explicitly mentioned in the text, is "Great Expectations" (that mother lode of literary reference).
