Manifestation

Written between 28 September 2004 and 5 September 2006

My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has supported this project

 

Part 1:

“…Ollie skipped town but forgot to take Stan.”  Reference to bumbling comedy duo Laurel & Hardy

Part 1:

References to ‘Quid pro quo’ and ‘Clarice’ from The Silence of the Lambs (Orion Pictures Corporation, 1991)

Part 1:

Sangoma: “…a holy man or woman, a skilled diviner and healer…”
http://www.africanenza.com/sangoma.html

Part 2:

“Food of the gods!”  McVitie’s choccy biccies

Part 2:

‘Oxbridge’  General term for an ancient, prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)

Part 2:

The Mohican:

Part 4:

‘It was a Mustang Convertible in Screaming Yellow…’ 

Part 4:

The Batusi:

Part 5:

Swan Lake: ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Part 5:

‘Pod Xander’  Referral to Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Part 5:

Man U: Manchester United Football Club

Part 6:

MENSA

Part 6:

“‘To keep my dear Padawan occupied’,” Spike sneeringly read aloud.  “‘With great affection, Obi-Doug.’”  Referral to master/apprentice relationship of Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars II & III

Part 7:

Mr Macawber from Charles Dickens David Copperfield.
Barney Rubble from The Flintstones.

Part 7:

“Thoughts of the Darling’s overprotective Nana in Peter Pan filled Xander’s thoughts…”  Reference to Nana, the children’s dog/nurse (Walt Disney’s Peter Pan 1953) 

Part 8:

‘When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.’  [Bible, I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 11)]

Part 9:

Shirley Temple:

Part 9:

Lyrics from Creep by Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood

Part 10:

Passion flower (Passiflora x alatocaerulea)

Part 10:

“…Spike’s cheerful rendition of ‘Deck the Halls with Bowels of Toby’…”  More usually Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly

Part 11:

‘Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.’  Theodore Roethke

Part 13:

Light sabre: Jedi weapon of choice, and excuse to include a photo of these two.  (Star Wars)

Part 13:

Lyrics from Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? by Carole King (Performed by Roberta Flack)

Part 14:

Birkenau

Part 14:

The Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote

Part 14:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Part 14:

“At the risk of ripping off Spielberg: phone home.”  Reference to ET

Part 16:

Vulcan nerve pinch: (incredibly, I couldn't find a decent picture of Spock performing it)

Part 17:

I Am What I Am from La Cage Aux Folles

Part 17:

ER: Brilliant American hospital drama in which the worse that can possibly happen does.  And then gets worse.

Part 17:

“Are we going to drag an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope into this?”  Reference to Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch

Part 18:


“The car, identical to the one at the cabin, turned out to be a Cadillac STS

Part 22:

“…I’m pretending you’re Johnny Depp.”

Part 23:

Lyrics from Every Breath You Take by Sting

Part 23:

Lyrics from Ghostbusters by Ray Parker jnr

Part 23:

Lyrics from Ne Me Quitte Pas by Jacques Brel

Part 23:

Reference to: “Cavalry's here. Cavalry's a frightened guy with a rock, but it's here.
Xander;
Becoming pt II BtVS S2

Part 24:

Lyrics from Because The Night by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen  (Performed by Patti Smith)

Part 25:

Lyrics from Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane (Performed by Luther Vandross)

Part 26:

The Vulpecula constellation

Part 26:

Lyrics from Perfect Day by Lou Reed  (Performed by Lou Reed)

Part 29:

Lyrics from Handle With Care by George Harrison  (Performed by The Traveling Wilburys)

Part 29:


Ford Lincoln Navigator

Part 30:

Lyrics from Wicked Game by Chris Isaak

Part 30:

Lassie

Part 31:

Tyrone Power

Part 31:

Love Shack by Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland  [Performed by The B-52’s]

Part 31:

Bohemian Like You by Courtney Taylor-Taylor  [Performed by The Dandy Warhols]

Part 31:

I’ll Stand By You by Billy Steinberg, Chrissie Hynde and Tom Kelly  [Performed by The Pretenders] 

Part 32:

The Impossible Dream by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion, from the musical Man of La Mancha.  [Performed by Peter O'Toole]

Part 32:

Quantum Leap

Part 32:

A Wand’ring Minstrel I by W S Gilbert, from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado

Part 32:

If You Go Away by Jacques Brel, English lyrics by Rod McKuen

Part 32:

Locutus of Borg

Part 33:

‘Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology’  Quote from The Six Million Dollar Man

Part 34:

Lyrics from The Impossible Dream by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion

Part 36:

Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

Part 36:

Christie's

Part 37:

Christ Church, Oxford

Part 37:

The King's Arms, Holywell Street, Oxford

The White Horse, Broad Street, Oxford

Part 38:

My Baby Just Cares For Me by Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson [Performed by Nina Simone]

Part 38:

Van Helsing

“...skinned bollocks hanging from the rafters and they’re blaming the likes of me.”

The ‘skinned bollocks’ contain Dracula's progeny.

 

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