In Popular Culture
- HMS Compass Rose is a fictional Royal Navy Flower class corvette in the novel The Cruel Sea.
- In the adventure game, Beyond Zork, a compass rose is a flower that can control the direction of the wind.
- The Compass Rose is the name of a significant tavern in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar fantasy novels.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
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