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About a year ago I discovered Twin Peaks on Netflix, and I am currently enjoying every moment of season 3. I've really come to appreciate the subtleties and nuances of David Lynch's style of storytelling. While I want to dive further into his cinematic canon (which would be a question for a diffe...
Ralph Crown mentions in this answer that a particular line in the play Hamlet could be interpreted as Hamlet breaking the fourth wall, and implies that this is common in Shakespeare plays:
Another [interpretation] is that Hamlet, like several other characters in Shakespeare, is aware of being...
The cat in I Am a Cat calls the children 'dear little things':
The children, dear little things, now trot off, day after day, to kindergarten: but on their return, they sing songs, bounce balls and sometimes hang me up by the tail.
I Am a Cat, chapter 1
But even in that quote we see that ...
In Paul Simon's album Graceland there is a song All Around the World.
This song has a repeating theme in the verses:
This is always some variation of:
There was no doubt about it,
It was the myth of fingerprints
The three instances are:
He says there's no doubt about it,
It was the ...
One of the things I've noticed through reading Shakespeare is that a lot of his plays include a meta-reference making fun of the play.
For example, in Twelfth Night Fabian says "If this were played upon a stage now, I could / condemn it as an improbable fiction."
And in A Midsummer-Night's Drea...
