In Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel of the same name, it is the catch that prevents a U.S. Air Force pilot from asking to be grounded on the basis of insanity.
A man “would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them.
If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t, he was sane and had to.”
The “Glad Girl” was Pollyanna, in the eponymous 1913 novel by Eleanor Hodgman Porter. She also appeared in the 1915 sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up.
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”.
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek was “Call me Ishmael.”
The sequel to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is Equality (1897).
In the 1928 essay “a room of one’s own”, it refers to the space a woman needs to write fiction. Specifically, Woolf says that a woman needs two things to be able to write: “money and a room of her own.” The essay was drawn from two papers Woolf gave at the Arts Society at…
Robert Herrick urged Corinna, in “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” (1648).