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Old 05-04-2011, 05:28 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's not just a matter of background information. Authors such as Trollope make a great many oblique references to topical events of the day, which go right over a modern reader's head without the footnotes to point out the meaning. Eg, consider this passage from Trollope's "The Warden":
That's true. For years, I thought this verse from Pink Floyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", was a reference to the US President:

Hey you, Whitehouse,
Ha ha charade you are.
You house proud town mouse,
Ha ha charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street.


I had no idea they were referring to someone I never heard of before - Mary Whitehouse.
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