I am curious how many reader's understood the reference to "Memison's - Famous for Fish Dinners" ?
It is a reference to an obscure novel by an an obscure British writer, E. R. Eddison. Eddison is probably best known for a less obscure novel, "The Worm Ouroboros". It was a cult favorite in the late 1960's. Eddison's second novel, "Mistress of Mistresses" is very difficult to comprehend. His final novel - incomplete at the time of his death, "A Fish Dinner in Memison" was competely incomprehensible to me. A few pages into the text it shifts into Greek - with no translation provided. (I guess you are supposed to have a "classical" education and know Greek...)
Second - Back in the early 1980's I met two building hackers. It was under the dome at the top of the Chrysler Building. The Hackers were two older ladies who had the hobby of visiting the non-public areas on the top of NYC buildings. They told me how to "hack" the Woolworth building. ( I did later that day!)
Florida Writer (Bob)
It is a reference to an obscure novel by an an obscure British writer, E. R. Eddison. Eddison is probably best known for a less obscure novel, "The Worm Ouroboros". It was a cult favorite in the late 1960's. Eddison's second novel, "Mistress of Mistresses" is very difficult to comprehend. His final novel - incomplete at the time of his death, "A Fish Dinner in Memison" was competely incomprehensible to me. A few pages into the text it shifts into Greek - with no translation provided. (I guess you are supposed to have a "classical" education and know Greek...)
Second - Back in the early 1980's I met two building hackers. It was under the dome at the top of the Chrysler Building. The Hackers were two older ladies who had the hobby of visiting the non-public areas on the top of NYC buildings. They told me how to "hack" the Woolworth building. ( I did later that day!)
Florida Writer (Bob)
The Jack books are loaded with those sorts of references. From literary to EC Comics to Warner Brothers cartoons. If you catch one or two, cool. If not, it won't affect the story.
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