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Look to the West : References and cameos
This is an overview of various references and cameos in Thande's long-running Look to the West timeline.
Don't read it if you haven't read the timeline yet and you're worried about possible spoilers.
This is a work in progress, so please be patient. Remember, you can always speed up the process by volunteering in the timeline's main thread.
Historical references
TBA.
Popculture references
Interlogue: Perfidious Albion - based on the well-known pejorative idiom.
Chapter #153: Sittin’ on Top of the World - reference to the interwar era Al Jolson song.
Chapter #183: Drive to the West and Chapter #193: The Grapple - probably a reference to the eponymous Harry Turtledove novels from his Southern Victory book series.
Chapter #186: Pee Dee Shames - a phonetic pun on P. D. James, the pen name of British crime writer Phyllis Dorothy James.
Interlogue: Silence in the Library - reference to the eponymous Doctor Who episode.
Chapter #201: Spoilers - probably a follow-up reference to Silence in the Library, as one of the characters in the episode uses the word as a catchphrase.
Chapter #206: Nation Shall Speak Boasts Unto Nation - a paraphrase of the BBC motto, "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation".
Chapter #215: A Girdle ‘Round The World In Forty Minutes - reference to the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.
Chapter #218: Enter the Dragon - reference to the Bruce Lee martial arts film.
Chapter #223: Cookeing the Books - pun on the idiom “cooking the books” (i.e. falsifying bills and invoices).
AH.commer cameos
Here's a growing list of AH.commers who have appeared as (mostly minor) fictional characters throughout the timeline.
Dr. Bruno Lombardi: Doctor What
Dr. Theodoros Pylos: Thermopylae
captain Christopher G. Nutall: Chris
“Le Diamant”: Diamond
Dr. Wostyn: Hendryk
captain Ben MacCauley: MacCaulay
Heinrich Ivan “The Bald Impostor” Pugachev (Kautzman): Burton K Wheeler (prev. The Bald Imposter)
professor Mads Svedalius: Makemakean
sergeant Ellis: TheDarkMessiah
lieutenant Thomas Black: Meadow
lieutenant Jack Tindale: Lord Roem
Moe Quedling (Moritz Wilhelm Quedlinburger): mowque
Peter Molnár: Petike
sergeant Robert Mumby: Mumby
Thande himself appears in the form of references to the “Thande Institute” in Cambridge and “Thandean Physics”, though these exist in the parallel setting of TimeLine A, instead of LTTW's TimeLine L.