Its premise is that like attracts like, that in the big heartless city there is a place where a potential mate will understand your allusions to Andrew Marvell, or at least Sex Week at Yale. "It's an environment where it's easy to talk to new people and you have some shared common background," said Jennifer Wilde Anderson, the founder of Ivy Plus.
And in "Fake Book" your allusions to traditional American pop songs evoke a romantic fantasy that you celebrate and deride.
Build Your Own Allusion Ask students to write an original essay on a topic unrelated to allusions, planting as many allusions as they can.
Xan Brooks, perhaps you wondered why you'd gotten stuck on the live-blog beat when you're clearly such a talented writer of creative non-fiction, but I say (to continue your Biblical allusions), who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
When Peter is introduced to Meg, he exclaims "D'oh!", to which Lois replies "No, Peter, that's not your catchphrase", an allusion to Homer Simpson in The Simpsons.
Then: "Where's your Goldman Sachs jacket?" an allusion to the employer of Cruz's wife.
(Yeah, Maf, you diminutive teller of shaggy dog stories, I got that allusion in your pretentious title).
He did not show her the text until after it went to press, because, "I know that you would forbid this public allusion to your labors and sacrifices".
Il popolo non lavate may not follow your arguments and allusions.
And the worst thing would be having to explain everything, every reference, every allusion, every joke about your own past or your own era.
