Reference in Fiction
The "Union Jack" as well as "the "Halfpenny Marvel" and "Pluck" are referenced by James Joyce in the short story "An Encounter", part of Joyce's "Dubliners". These magazines are mentioned as highly popular among Dublin schoolboys of the time, who are especially attacted to the Wild West stories published in them.
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Famous quotes containing the words reference and/or fiction:
“I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)