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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“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
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