[Dragaera] Another Possible Allusion for Mark's Cracks and Shards Page (Potential Spoilers)

Ken Koester kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov
Wed Jul 16 09:43:55 PDT 2008


Tim Owen wrote:

>Potential Spoiler Alert!
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>You've been warned!
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>On Page 31 of Jhegaala Vlad remarks:
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>"...I could now see a large brick structure on the other side of the river, belching smoke."
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>Which sounds remarkably similar to the lyric in The Police's Synchronicity II:
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>"The factory belches filth into the sky..."
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Dubious.  Factory/smoke/belching is a fairly common image cluster in 
19th-and-later century lit.  I'd be more impressed if something crawled 
out of a dark Scottish loch. . . (-;

Snarkhunter

 






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