How did William Burroughs kill his wife?
The author of Naked Lunch (1959) William Burroughs unsuccessfully attempted to shoot a glass off his wife’s head.
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With whom does Kugelmass have an affair in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode” (1977)?
Kugelmass has an affair with Emma Bovary in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode”. The Great Persky projects the bored professor into Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) and Emma Bovary into modern Manhattan.
Who was Jeeves’s boss?
Jeeves’s boss was Bertie Wooster, a young man-about-town in P. G. Wodehouse’s stories beginning with My Man Jeeves (1919). Jeeves was his valet.
How old is Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (c. 1596)?
In act 1, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father says she “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”, making her thirteen.
Who wrote “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses”?
Dorothy Parker, known for her sharp wit, wrote the famous couplet, “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses” in the poem “News Item” in 1926.
Who were the Fugitives and Agrarians?
The Fugitives and Agrarians were a group of writers associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous of the group were Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.
Where did the English title for Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) come from?
C. K. Scott Moncrieff took the title Remembrance of Things Past for his 1922 English translation of Proust from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought/I summon up remembrance of things past.” The literal translation of Proust’s title is “In Search of Lost Time.”