Marquand’s The Eye of the Needle is close enough to Follett’s spy thriller, which does not have a picnic episode. Henry Faber, aka Henry Baker, aka The Needle, waits to connect with a Nazi U-boat to take him back to Germany to meet with Hitler. He’s...
Transforming the popular children’s song “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” into a death picnic is Trevor’s metaphor for portraying the 1980s generation as infantile and short on morality. Six months into their marriage, Edwin, a twenty-nine-year-old...
Colwin’s is a New York-based novel about Polly [Dora] Solo-Miller Demarest, married to Henry Demarest, an affluent, Jewish East Manhattan husband she loves, and Lincoln Bennett, an artist who lives in Lower Manhattan. Polly finds family happiness by leading two lives,...
At Byrum’s July Fourth picnic, lovers cuddle, kiss, and roll on the grass. Larry Darrell wants more, but Isabel Bradley wants to wait. At the lover’s picnic in Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge, never touch or kiss or even hold hands As in...
The failure of the picnic at the Marabar Caves is a metaphor for the irreconcilability of Anglo-Indian relationships. David Lean’s careful version of the catastrophic “Caves” episode, like Forster’s, constitutes the middle third of A Passage to...
Truffaut’s title Les deux Anglaises et le continent refers to two English girls, Muriel and Anne Brown, and their lover, Claude Roc, a Frenchman. It’s a confusing title until it is explained that the girls affectionately call Claude “le continent. ” Even...
E.M. Forster called it a “social contretemps,” a picnic presided over by the little go Pan, who presides over unsuccessful picnics. It’s unsuccessful because when George Emerson kisses Lucy Honeychurch on the hillside above Fiesole, she doesn’t understand how to...
Dove’s collection of poems Thomas and Beulah is a history of her mother Beulah and her father Thomas’ life together from their courtship to his death. “Wingfoot Lake,” subtitled “Independence Day,” signifies the Fourth of July. More...
You have to look at this again to fully grasp the satire. Nice. Compare this with Banksy’s picnic. See William B. Montgomery. Industrial Picnic. 1986. Etching, hand-colored
Industrial Picnic is William Montgomery’s satirical vision of how we are desensitized by pollution and learn to do with what we have. Wonderful satire. Featured Image: William B. Montgomery. Industrial Picnic. Hand-colored etching.
