As of December 9, 2021, the entry for the painting "Et in Arcadio Ego" includes a section on literary and pop cultural references to the title phrase, but it does not yet mention the fact that Vladimir Nabokov references it in his novel Pale Fire. See p. 237 of the Vintage International edition.
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...
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We all recognize the image: the evil boss/magnate has a trapdoor in front of his desk, through which he can drop employees and labor agitato...
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As of November 19, 2018, the entry for Willa Cather's 1923 novel One of Ours mentions that Hemingway once deprecated the realism of its...
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...