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| ...the childhood of Raleigh – UTV, 157.
Hugh's image of himself is based upon Sir John Millais's The Boyhood of Raleigh, now at the Tate Gallery, London. The painting is recalled in October Ferry (152). |
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| the doctor's consulting-room in the Avenida de la Revolución, visited for some drunken reason in the early hours of the morning, macabre with its pictures of ancient Spanish surgeons, their goat faces rising queerly from ruffs resembling ectoplasm, roaring with laughter as they performed inquisitorial operations – UTV, 141.
The Consul's distorted recollection may be based on Rembrandt's painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632). |
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| … the Mexican lakebed, itself once the crater of a huge volcano – UTV, 11.
The Valley of Mexico, with the volcanoes in the background, before the draining of Lake Texcoco. Painting of the Valle de México desde el cerro de Santa Isabel (1892), by José María Velasco (1840-1912). |
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| Suddenly he screamed. – UTV, 375.
Above: Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'. |
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Triton fresco
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...climbing the ruined pyramid later, which he had proudly insisted was the original Tower of Babel. – UTV, 11.
Brueghel's Tower of Babel, associated by Ignatius Donnelly with the unfinished pyramid at Cholula.