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== [[The Bible]] ==

* ''[[The Sandman]]''

** ''More than Rubies'', multi-issue arc (Proverbs 31:10)

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]:

** ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' (novel) (Psalm 23:4)

** ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' (novel) (Revelation 13:18)

** "[[Let There Be Light]]" (short story) (Genesis 1:3)

** ''Vengeance Is Mine!'' (Romans 12:19)

* [[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld]]''

* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] series

** ''Clouds Of Witness'' (Hebrews 12:1)

** "Revelations"

** "Passing Through Gethsemane" (allusion to Matthew 26:36 or Mark 14:32)

** "Valley of Darkness" (Psalms 23:4)

** "Exodus"

 

=== Video Games ===

** Zerg mission 8: Eye for an Eye (Exodus 21:24)

* ''Ultimate [[Doom (series)|Doom]]''

 

== Shakespeare ==

* ''[[The Sandman]]''

** "Sound and Fury" (''[[Macbeth]]'' V.i)

** ''First Gravedigger'', novel (minor character in ''[[Hamlet]]'')

* [[Terry Pratchett]]

* Marcel Proust

** ''Remembrance of Things Past'' (Sonnet 30), English translation of the novel ''A la recherche du temps perdu''. Proust actually objected to the Shakespeare reference in the title, which his publisher insisted on in order to boost sales. Nowadays the title is usually translated literally: "[[In Search Of Lost Time]]".

 

== Lord Acton ==

* "Absolute Power", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (letter to Mandell Creighton)

* ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'', radio show

 

== Douglas Adams ==

* "An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy", ''[[ER]]'' episode (play on title of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'')

 

== John Quincy Adams ==

* "The Ensigns of Command", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ("The Wants of Man", poem)

 

== Aeschylus ==

* "Prometheus Unbound", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (title of play)

* ''Prometheus Unbound'', play by Percy Shelley

 

== Archimedes ==

 

== [[Aristotle]] ==

* "Men of Good Fortune", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (''Rhetoric'', treatise)

 

 

== Isaac Asimov ==

* The titles of ''In Memory Yet Green'' and ''In Joy Still Felt'' -- a two-volume autobiography -- were drawn by the author from a poem by [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]]. It's something of a [[Zig-Zagging Trope]], though, since it's ''Asimov's'' autobiography.

 

== James Aubrey ==

* ''Brief Lives'', multi-issue ''[[The Sandman]]'' arc and subsequent single-volume collection (title of biography collection)

 

== The Bhagavad Gita ==

* "I Am Become Death", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Given the nuclear explosion during this episode, this is almost certainly by way of Oppenheimer, who was quoting the Bhagavad Gita.

* On this very wiki: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]

 

== Otto von Bismarck ==

 

== Ray Bradbury ==

* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' - The [[Michael Moore]] documentary about the presidency of [[George W. Bush]], referencing Bradbury's classic ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''. Mr. Bradbury accused Mr. Moore of "stealing" his title, though he himself has invoked the Literary Allusion Title several times in his career.

 

== John Bradford ==

 

== W. B. Cannon ==

* "Fight or Flight", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' (''Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement'', scientific paper)

 

== Lewis Carroll ==

== Casablanca ==

* ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', movie directed by [[Bryan Singer]] (''[[Casablanca]]'', movie)

* "The Usual Suspects", episode of ''Supernatural''

* "We'll Always Have Paris", episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''

* "A Beautiful Friendship", ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'' short story (about the first contact between humans and treecats), later expanded to a novel for the start of a [[Young Adult]] [[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]] line.

 

== Johnny Cash ==

* "The Folsom Prison Blues", ''Supernatural'' episode (title of song)

 

== Raymond Chandler ==

* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode (title of novel)

 

== Child Ballads / folk songs ==

 

== Arthur Conan Doyle ==

* ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]'', novel by Mark Haddon ("Silver Blaze", short story)

 

== Al Dubin ==

 

== Euripides ==

 

== Eleanor Farjeon ==

 

== John Fogerty ==

* "Bad Moon Rising", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (title of song)

* "[[Bad Moon Rising]]", All The Tropes.

 

== Robert Frost ==

* ''Perish Twice'', novel by Robert B. Parker ("Fire and Ice", poem)

* "Road Not Taken", ''Stargate: SG-1'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)

* "Road Not Taken", ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)

 

 

== Galileo Galilei ==

 

== George Gershwin ==

* "Rhapsody in Blue", ''[[Farscape]]'' episode (title of orchestral piece)

 

== W. S. Gilbert ==

* ''From Here to Eternity'', novel by James Jones ("Gentlemen-Rankers", poem)

* ''The Thin Red Line'', novel by James Jones ("Tommy", poem)

** Although, as "Tommy" lampshades, "thin red line" was an older phrase used in the newspapers etc. at least since the Crimean War.

* ''Insurance: The White Man's Burden'', a Goon Show episode. ("The White Man's Burden", poem)

 

== John Milton ==

* ''Tripping the Light Fantastic'', album by [http://www.theenid.com/ The Enid]

* ''Tripping the Live Fantastic'', live double album by [[Paul McCartney]]

 

== Jean-Paul Sartre ==

* "Other People", short story by Neil Gaiman (''No Exit'', play)

* "No Exit", episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' (title of play)

 

== Maurice Sendak ==

* "Where the Wild Things Are", episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (title of picture book)

 

== Robert Service ==

* "Where Silence Has Lease", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ("The Spell of the Yukon", poem)

 

== Dr. Seuss ==

 

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