The Lost Language of Cranes - References To Other Works

References To Other Works

• Rose and Owen's neighborhood is compared to I Love Lucy. Later skyscrapers make Rose think of The Twilight Zone.
• Owen is said to be reading a biography by Lytton Strachey.
• Arnold Selensky listens to Eurythmics and spurns Lawrence Welk.
• Mice on the streets make Philip think of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
• The song "Like a Virgin" by Madonna is being played in the club in Chelsea where Philip and Eliot go on the day they meet.
• The film The Exorcist is playing at a bar where Philip and Eliot also go on their first night together.
• Edward Lear's poem "The Jumblies" is quoted.
• Jerene is said to like to watch The Facts of Life.
• Owen wrote a thesis on Edmund Spenser. Later there is a book of Milton's poems on Winston's car's backseat.
• Rose likes to listen to Billie Holiday. Later, she sings, "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans".
• Jimi Hendrix and Menudo are mentioned.
• Rose is said to be reading Middlemarch by George Eliot.
• Rose is said to be watching The Rockford Files.
• Alex Melchor listens to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and refers to Tango Argentino and Stephen Sondheim.
• Other references made are to Tintin, Oscar Wilde, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass and The Roches.
• Through doing crosswords, Rose comes across Thomas Mann, Timon of Athens, and Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques.
• When he was younger, Philip would listen to The Carpenters and The Partridge Family.
• Winston compares Rose to Gene Tierney and admits he likes her films.
• Philip and Winston compare the Benjamins to Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
• Brad watches Star Trek. He then compares Philip's description of Winston to Zeno's paradoxes.