Cultural References
The band Airborne Toxic Event took their name from the novel. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 episode 9, What's My Line: Part 1, the character of Principal Sydner tells the character Xander Harris, "Whatever comes out of your mouth is a meaningless waste of breath, an airborne toxic event."
San Diego string band Shady Side Players recorded an instrumental called Dylar Breakdown, composed by Evan Moring.
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“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)