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F451 Allusions You Need to Know

 F451 Allusions

This is a list of all the allusions. 

They're pretty darn important for understanding the book.

It's ok if  you're overwhelmed by them; many of them will be unfamiliar to you. Please look them up anyway. 

This list is based on the second link (on the list in the left margin). Let me know if there are any errors from my cutting and pasting (sometimes things disappear).

 

The ones in  pink italics are the ones on which I'll test you.  

 INTRODUCTION

·     Juan Ramón Jiménez*

PART ONE:

• p. 5/p. 8: Guy Montag Clarisse McClellan: *
• p. 9: Millay, Whitman,  Faulkner
• p. 21: The Parlor:
• p. 26 and p. 28: The Hound growled. [...] "This isn't the first time it's threatened me":
• p. 27: the Phoenix: *
• p. 35: First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin:
• p. 36 and p. 40: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
• p. 37: Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine:
• p. 39: Tower of Babel:
• p. 41: "I'm full of bits and pieces", said Beatty:
• p. 50: Dante, Alighieri :Swift, Jonathan; Marcus Aurelius :
• p. 54: Civil War: Hamlet:
• p. 55: there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more:
• p. 57: Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second generation Chinese, Swedes ...:
• p. 58: the Constitution (1787):
• p. 59: People want to be happy ... Don't we give them fun?
• Little Black Sambo/Uncle Tom's Cabin:
• p. 61: We have our fingers in the dike:
• p. 66: It would be best if firemen themselves were burnt:
• p. 67: It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end:

 PART TWO:

• p. 69: The Sieve and the Sand: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed
• p. 70: That favourite subject, Myself:
• p. 71: We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960:  
• p. 72: His name was Faber:  
• p. 73: Plato 
• p. 74: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826): Thoreau, Henry David
• p. 76: Consider the lilies of the field*
• p. 81: Hercules ; Antaeus: *
• p. 83: Caesar, Gaius Julius "Remember Caesar, thou art mortal
• p. 84: Pirandello, Luigi, George Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare, William :
• p. 85: John Milton Sophocles
• p. 86: Aeschylus; O'Neill, Eugene
• p. 90: The Book of Job;  ... their Cheshire cat smiles:
• p. 92: In again out again Finnegan:
• p. 94: Winston Noble and Hubert Hoag:
• p. 97: Dover Beach: *
• p. 101: All isn't well with the world:
• p. 102: Who are a little wise, the best fools be:\
• p. 103: Ruth: We're all sheep who have strayed at times:  
• Truth is truth ;
• They are never alone 
• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge:  
• Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found:  
• A little learning is a dangerous thing 
• Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ..Pierian:
• p. 104: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force... 
• He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty:
•  Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long:  
• Oh God, he speaks only of his horse: 
• The Devil can cite Scripture for his Purpose: 
• This age thinks better of a gilded fool,than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school: 
• The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting:  
• Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer:  
• What, do I give you trench mouth? 
• Knowledge is power:* 
• A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the furthest of the two:The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof ... is inborn in us: 
• A kind of excellent dumb discourse:
• p. 105: All's well that is well in the end:

·     PART THREE:

• p. 108: Burning bright: * Old Montag wanted to fly near the Sun and ... he's burned his wings: *
• p. 112: You think you can walk on water: 
• p. 113: There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats: 
•  p. 114: Beatty flopped over ... and lay silent:  
• p. 126: Harvard degrees:  
• p. 132: Keystone Comedy:
• p. 133: he was at the river:
• p. 139: It [the fire] was not burning, it was warming:
• p. 140: My name's Granger:
• p. 143: Thomas Hardy U. C. L. A.: Ortega y Gasset, José (Columbia University:
• p. 144: Ecclesiastes : *Revelations: *Plato's Republic:*
• p. 145: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:  
•  Charles Darwin;
• Schopenhauer, Arthur
•   Einstein, Albert'   
• Albert Schweitzer: 
• Aristophanes
• Mahatma Gandhi;  
• Gautama Buddha: 
• Thomas Love Peacock: Thomas
• Jefferson:   
• Mr. Lincoln: 
•  Byron, George Gordon Noel Lord:  
• Tom Paine (Payne):  
• Machiavelli, 
• Niccolò:
• p. 146: Thoreau's Walden or Life in the Woods;  
• Bertrand Russell:
• p. 147: Magna Charta:
• p. 151: "... disintegrate, leave no stone on another":
• p. 153: Ecclesiastes/Revelation: 
• p. 156: Phoenix:
• p. 157: To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to keep silence and a time to speak: *
• And on either side of the river was there a tree of life ... And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations: