Cultural References and Literary Allusions
- Queequeg is a character in Moby-Dick, and the face of Herman Melville appears on the submarine's uniforms.
- In a Rosetta stone.
- Sunny uses foreign words in this book:
- Yom Huledet, which means birthday in Hebrew.
- Shalom, which means peace and is used for hello or goodbye in Hebrew.
- Cuisi- Sunny was about to say "cuisine" which means kitchen in French.
- Three poems are mentioned involving the Verse Fluctuation Declaration:
- Robert Browning's My Last Duchess
- Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter
- T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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