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Literary References
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Allusion

Blowin' in the Wind
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""When you blew in with the winds of fate""
Incidental
e.e. cummings — unconventional capitalisation
loml
""loml" (title — lowercase)"
Incidental
Field of Dreams (1989)
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""Our field of dreams engulfed in fire""
Incidental
Just Kids
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""We were just kids, babe""
Structural
Lady Macbeth — the blood stain
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""Never quite buried"; "something counterfeit's dead""
Structural
The Fates (Greek mythology)
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""We embroidered the memories... stitching""
Structural
The Winds of Fate
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"blew up with the winds of fate"
Incidental
The Wizard of Oz — The Cowardly Lion
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""Oh, what a valiant roar / What a bland goodbye / The coward claimed he was a lion""
Structural
Water Lilies / Impressionism
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""Your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes""
Structural

Thematic echo

Just Kids
loml
""We were just kids, babe""
Structural
Lady Macbeth — the blood stain
loml
""Never quite buried"; "something counterfeit's dead""
Structural
T.S. Eliot — "the purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"
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""All at once, the ink bleeds""
Structural
The Fates (Greek mythology)
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""We embroidered the memories... stitching""
Structural
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
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""You cinephile in black and white / all those plot twists and dynamite""
Incidental
The Winds of Fate
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"blew up with the winds of fate"
Incidental
Writing as pain / pouring yourself into work
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""All at once, the ink bleeds""
Incidental