What are some literary easter eggs? By easter eggs in this sense i just mean references to literary characters and works that caught you by surprise. Like Thoreau's Walden cabin in Fallout 4. Stuff like that
Augustus in The Aeneid
Wtf
>>7531433
Rousseau mentions something from Thucydides without mentioning his name in the confessions.
...that's called an allusion.
>>7531433
Carefully crafted b8 thread. 7/10
>>7531440
Kinda makes sense since Aeneas met Augustus in the underworld where Ascanius was showing him all the great Romans that would come to be. Virgil also wrote this for the emperor so he probably wanted to pick up some brownie points as well.
>>7531494
not sure how this is bait mate. I guess it sounds kinda reddity but i was just genuinely interested. Like the pic of ol' Che up there enjoying Goethe. Stuff like that is interesting
In Faust I, in the Walpurgisnacht, there's a character with the name of "Proktophantasmist" - procto, anus, phantasmist, someone who fakes tales
That is an allusion to Friedrich Nicolai, a big critic of Goethe's work and of course hated by Goethe.
Nicolai had hallucinations featuring ghosts and he cured the hallucinations with leeches to the butt, something which he enthusiastically recommended to the public. Thus the character.
The game Castlevania Symphony of the Night has a whole bunch of swords from mythology and fantasy but the one that really took me by surprise was Terminus Est being in there.
>>7531664
Also Book of the New Sun had a few fun ones at the start, like the blind librarian being Borges and the torturers having the machine from Kafkas Penal Colony in their basement.
The Baudelaire, Plato and Invisible Cities in Space Funeral.
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros)
There's a line in that movie lifted verbatim from Michael Chabon's "Yiddish Policeman's Union," which they were adapting for the screen a while back (project has since gone under).
Somehow, no one seems to have noticed, but I caught it because I happened to be reading YPU at the time.
>>7531733
What was the line?
>>7531500
That's the joke m8
Realistically I thought Ben Franklin in Mason & Dixon was hysterical but that wasn't really an 'Easter egg'
Lain has a reference to Proust's Swann's Way when her dad says "I will bring madeleines next time. They will taste good with the tea"
>>7531433
Neo in the Matrix hides a disc in a copy of Simulacra and Simulation.
>>7532579
"The future? You mean like flying cars? Hotels on the moon? ... Tang?"
