The Lake in Fiction
Chautauqua Lake is mentioned in at least one episode of I Love Lucy, in which Lucille Ball (a native of nearby Jamestown, New York), playing the role of Lucy Ricardo, finds a small fish, stuffed and mounted, in a trunk in her attic and recalls that Ricky caught it at Chautauqua Lake, and was so thrilled that he mounted it.
Chautauqua Lake is of major significance in the novel Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan (Grove Press, 2002). The German translation of the title was Abschied von Chautauqua, which means "A Farewell from Chautauqua".
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Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or fiction:
“Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)