Thoughts
Reading the *Left-handed Booksellers of London*, by Nix. And he keeps dropping these references. And I miss most of them.
Some of the references are to Tolkien or Lewis or whatever. But then I catch like a line from a Donne poem I memorized once, just as a part of dialogue. Like, the character says "One short sleep past, we wake eternally," and the conversation moves on. That's a direct quote from a poem from over 400 years ago.
The thing that gets me is that there are lots of other lines in the book that I think could be references to something, that go over my head.
One of the characters drops 2 lines of the Major General's patter. Like…