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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: OZ on August 26, 2012, 08:35:02 PM ---Ben Franklin and portions of the KJV bible have weathered well also although many mix up which quotes come from which.

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If you don't know where something comes from, it's usually either Dorothy Parker, Winston Churchill, or Oscar Wilde.

o_O:

--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 26, 2012, 06:35:58 PM ---This does also have a problem with references aging; you get unlucky in picking which current bestseller or movie you quote, and in ten years' time nobody knows what the heck you're talking about.  I think you can pretty well trust Shakespeare and Milton not to age badly, but that's about it.

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A related danger is "The author comes off as trying too hard for pop references- is  this overcompensation by a clueless oldie?"

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: o_O on August 28, 2012, 10:23:12 PM ---A related danger is "The author comes off as trying too hard for pop references- is  this overcompensation by a clueless oldie?"

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Yeah, I've read a number of books that have failed in the direction of "the writer is layering in references to the pop culture of their youth and the world has moved on since then."

LizW65:
One example of a work that managed to find a good balance of pop culture references is the show Farscape. It used a ton of pop culture references, yet all were sufficiently well-known as to be familiar to just about any Westerner who wasn't living in a cave for the last fifty years, and well-established enough that they don't seem obscure or outdated even though the show ended a decade ago.

o_O:

--- Quote from: LizW65 on August 29, 2012, 03:39:24 PM ---One example of a work that managed to find a good balance of pop culture references is the show Farscape. It used a ton of pop culture references, yet all were sufficiently well-known as to be familiar to just about any Westerner who wasn't living in a cave for the last fifty years, and well-established enough that they don't seem obscure or outdated even though the show ended a decade ago.

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And it even has a Dresden tie-in.

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