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Famous Last Words and other references in Looking for Alaska

Famous Last Words and other references in Looking for Alaska. François Rabelais. “I go to seek a Great Perhaps” pg. 11. Hades - Ancient Greek God of the Underworld. pg. 14 “ wouldn’t be used to this heat if I was from Hades”.

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Famous Last Words and other references in Looking for Alaska

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  1. Famous Last Words and other references in Looking for Alaska

  2. François Rabelais “I go to seek a Great Perhaps” pg. 11

  3. Hades - Ancient Greek God of the Underworld pg. 14 “ wouldn’t be used to this heat if I was from Hades”

  4. Adonis the God of beauty and desire“like a scale model of Adonis” pg.16

  5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost pg 16 • Whose woods these are I think I know. • His house is in the village, though; • He will not see me stopping here • To watch his woods fill up with snow. • My little horse must think it queer • To stop without a farmhouse near • Between the woods and frozen lake • The darkest evening of the year. • He gives his harness bells a shake • To ask if there is some mistake. • The only other sound's the sweep • Of easy wind and downy flake. • The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, • But I have promises to keep, • And miles to go before I sleep, • And miles to go before I sleep.

  6. The General in his Labyrinthby Gabriel Garcia Marques

  7. Simon Bolivar • “ Damn it, how will I ever get out of this get out of this labyrinth?” • pg 27 • th

  8. Yeats, Picasso, Garcia Marques pg 52“the only real geniuses are artists”

  9. WB Yeats (pron. Yates) Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

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