Fictional Portrayals and References in Popular Culture
A framing hammer is a central plot element in the fourth season of the popular American television series Dexter.
In the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph, the title character's friend and in-game opponent, Felix, wields a magical golden framing hammer
Norman Spaulding has treated the framing hammer as a discursive metaphor for the Erie doctrine's dramatic reversal of Swift v. Tyson. See Norman Spaulding, The Framing Hammer of Justice, 28 Colo. L. Rev. 352 (2007).
In July 2011 Florida teenager Tyler Hadley, 17, was alleged by authorities to have bludgeoned his parents to death with a framing hammer before holding a raucous house party with friends.
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“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
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