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.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“For those that love the world serve it in action,
Grow rich, popular and full of influence,
And should they paint or write, still it is action:
The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)