On June 16, 1906, unknown to each other, Leopold Bloom and Molly Bloom remember the picnic on the Hill of Howth when they agreed to marry sixteen years earlier. a popular park outside of Dublin. As part of her soliloquy in which Molly recalls the day, she remembers...
Russ’s sci-fi novel Picnic on Paradise, a sci-fi thriller, takes place on Paradise, a resort planet that is a war zone. Paradise is a resort planet that becomes a war zone in which Alyx, a woman from the past, is brought to life in a future world. She is charged with...
Miller’s picnic captures an awkward, passionless-first-time-sexual encounter between Mick and Harry in Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. According to McCullers, Mick and Harry hardly speak, and the narrative breaks off before they have sex....
O’Hara’s “A Few Trips and Some Poetry “is a long story about a picnic where the pleasure of sharing is sexual. O’Hara’s picnic-sex episode provides a memory that lasts a lifetime. What is served at this picnic is not the usual fare;...
Wolfe’s tale of murder unfolds when Rex Stout’s three-hundred-and-fifty-pound detective is to give a short speech at the United Restaurant Workers of America Fourth of July celebration at Culp’s Meadows, somewhere on Long Island. As narrated by...
![Anna Mary Robertson. [Grandma Moses]. July Fourth Postage (1969)](https://picnicwit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Grandma-Moses.png)
In 1969 the United States issued a postage stage stamp with a Grandma Moses painting’s July Fourth subject. The stamp shows a horse-drawn carriage going somewhere, but the story ends just as it is about to reach its destination. It ought to have had a picnic because...
Angelou fondly recalls the “summer picnic fish-fry” with characteristic high spirits. As narrated in her fictionalized memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou explains this was the biggest outdoor event of the year” in the African American Stamps, Arkansas....
Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War keeps the essential anti-war satire originally envisioned by Charles Chiltern and Joan Littlewood. New and effective, however, is the film’s final sequence, which begins as a picnic on the grass and ends with a...
The picnic celebrates Ada’s sexual awakening on her twelfth birthday. * It’s a picnic during which she initiates a life-long incestuous relationship with her older brother Van Veen. As a sign of her age, Ada wears a long but airy and ample black skirt with...
Hazelton prefers picnics that are not spontaneous.. She contends a picnic begins when you “invite the people and then figure out the food.” “My idea of a good picnic, she writes, “is one that I can fix up at home and need only carry and unpack at the chosen spot. I...
Miró probably printed this image of rustics at play on a typical picnic cloth of red gingham as a decorative joke. Miró has said it’s never easy for him to talk about his art. In a letter to Pierre Matisse, however, he explains that he is drawn to his objects by some...
Strange figures and vibrant colors make this picnic unsettling. The setting appears to be a sailboat in which a puffin sits beside a bare-breasted woman with a face like a mask. There is a dog in her lap and a striped tabby at her knee. Above the funnel (lower right)...
Welber’s The Winter Picnic is about a willful boy who wants a picnic, even in the snow. Adam is a city boy who wants to picnic even in the snow despite his mother’s protestations. Adam bundles up and plays picnic: he makes plates, cups, and a bowl out of snow but...
It’s an ordinary school trip when Hélène guides her class to Cougnac Caves above the Dordogne River. The cave paintings are thirty-thousand-year-old, but lunch is more important for the children. They chatter when Hélène has the children safely settled on the...
The picnic in McCarry’s The Secret Lovers, a Cold War spy-versus-spy novel, is a sly allusion to Édouard Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe. When Paul Christopher’s boss David Patchen complains that Impressionists bore him and “Picnics explain nothing,”...
The premise of Angle of Repose is that Susan Burling’s marriage to Oliver Ward was no picnic. It’s a sad narrative without the pleasures and high spirits of a picnic. According to her grandson Lyman Ward, who writes her life story, Susan Burling’s marriage to Oliver...
For his take on “Quatrain XI” of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Bearden transports Omar Khayyám Old World Persia to New World Tropics f. Though the poem suggests sensuality, Bearden presents the poet clothed but the woman naked, except for a body sash and a head...
![Albert E. Brumley’s All-Day Singin’ and Dinner on the Ground[s] (1972)](https://picnicwit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Albert-Brumley.-All-Day-Singin-and-Dinner-on-the-Ground-1080x675.jpg)
Camp meetings are an American tradition, the first of which seems to have been organized by James McGready (c.1760–1817) based on the Scottish Presbyterian outdoor revival meetings. These meetings were introduced to England in 1807, especially by the Methodists. The...
The Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic is somewhere in Canada, where specialists pick through the debris left by careless Extraterrestrial picnickers. There is no picnic.The picnic is a metaphor offered by knowledgeable scientist Valentine Pillman to explain the...
Brunhoff ‘s Babar Visits Another Planet (1972) begins at the start of yet another family picnic until a rocketship upsets the fun. Before they realize the situation, Babar, Celeste, their children Pom, Flora, Arthur, cousin Alexander, and Zephir, the monkey, are...
