In Popular Culture
There is a reference to Logue in Monday Begins on Saturday, a 1964 science fiction / science fantasy novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Magnus Red'kin, a character in the novel, quotes a fragment of a Logue's poem:
- You ask me:
- What is the greatest happiness on earth?
- Two things:
- changing my mind
- as I change a penny for a shilling;
- and
- listening to the sound
- of a young girl
- singing down the road
- after she has asked me the way -
as one of the definitions of happiness from his extensive collection, and complains that "such things do not allow for algorithmisation".
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