On December 19, 2013 Doug Dorst uploaded two pictures of the Ship of Theseus review by Edsel B. Grimshaw. Geekyzen and Mystimus both written excellent blog posts about the review.
I was intrigued by the ad next to the review (2nd page) for the fictional book Moonlight. @0bFuSc8 on twitter found links to additional ads and posted them on twitter and in the comments of the SFiles22 blog.
Here is the ad as it appears in the review:
Asking the google, I was able to find the original ad that was adapted for use in the review. It comes from the August 26, 1950 edition of The Saturday Review.
"German general kidnapped from Crete by Englishmen and partisan guerillas..."
It's interesting in that the ad gives another us another link to Greece (Santorini Man) and the author also wrote a book titled Bats with Baby Faces which is reference taken from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. I was unable to find any additional information on the book other than it was published by Harlequin Books (1951) and appears to be pulp fiction. I welcome any additional information that readers may have to offer.
(Fair use under U.S. Copyright law allows for the use of copyrighted works for non-commercial educational purposes)
(7/31/14, tags added and edited for grammar)
The title can be found in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 2, Scene 1. It is spoken by Oberon (King of the Fairies) to Titania (Queen of the Fairies).
ReplyDeleteThis one-line plot summary tells me this connection matters:
"The play features three interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream#Plot)
Nice, another Shakespeare reference.
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