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== [[The Bible]] ==
=== ComicsComic Books ===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** ''More than Rubies'', multi-issue arc (Proverbs 31:10)
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]:
** ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' (novel) (Psalm 23:4)
** ''[[Stranger in Aa Strange Land]]'' (novel) (Exodus 2:22)
** ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' (novel) (Revelation 13:18)
** "[[Let There Be Light]]" (short story) (Genesis 1:3)
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** ''Vengeance Is Mine!'' (Romans 12:19)
* [[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld]]''
** ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'' (Daniel 2:33)
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] series
** ''Clouds Of Witness'' (Hebrews 12:1)
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** "Revelations"
** "Passing Through Gethsemane" (allusion to Matthew 26:36 or Mark 14:32)
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|''Battlestar Galactica'' (reboot)]]
** "Valley of Darkness" (Psalms 23:4)
** "Exodus"
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== Shakespeare ==
=== ComicsComic Books ===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** "Sound and Fury" (''[[Macbeth]]'' V.i)
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** ''First Gravedigger'', novel (minor character in ''[[Hamlet]]'')
* [[Terry Pratchett]]
** ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Discworld]] novel (Shakespeare has "weird sisters" (''[[Macbeth]]'' I.iii), but still...)
* 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]]".
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== [[Aristotle]] ==
===ComicsComic Books===
* "Men of Good Fortune", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (''Rhetoric'', treatise)
 
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== Robert Frost ==
=== Comic Books ===
* "Before I Sleep", ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
* "Miles''Two toRoads Go Before I Sleep"Diverge'', songgraphic recordednovel by CelineRichard DionKelly ("Stopping By Woods OnThe ARoad SnowyNot EveningTaken", poem)
 
=== Literature ===
* ''Perish Twice'', novel by Robert B. Parker ("Fire and Ice", poem)
* "The Road LessNot TraveledTaken", ''short story by [[BattlestarHarry Galactica ReimaginedTurtledove]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
 
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Before I Sleep", ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
* "Road Less Traveled", ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''Stargate: SG-1'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* ''Two Roads Diverge'', graphic novel by Richard Kelly ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
 
=== Music ===
* "Miles to Go Before I Sleep", song recorded by Celine Dion ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
 
== Galileo Galilei ==
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== George Gershwin ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Rhapsody in Blue", ''[[Farscape]]'' episode (title of orchestral piece)
 
 
== W. S. Gilbert ==
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== John Milton ==
* ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'', Discworld novel ("L'Allegro", poem)
* ''Tripping the Light Fantastic'', album by [http://www.theenid.com/ The Enid]
* ''Tripping the Live Fantastic'', live double album by [[Paul McCartney]]
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== Jean-Paul Sartre ==
* "[[Firefly (TV series)/Recap/E14 Objects in Space|Objects in Space]]", ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode (''Being and Nothingness'', book)
* "Other People", short story by Neil Gaiman (''No Exit'', play)
* "No Exit", episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' (title of play)
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