Sometimes people quote for the sake of quoting. Hell, even in literature I get the feeling people are just trying to show off how smart they are half the time, and not trying to say anything of their own. But when a work actually complements the stuff that came before it, it deserves itself to be referenced later on. And so it goes...
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Having actually read (some) of Paradise Lost after a lifetime of procrastinating, the amount of direct references to that epic poem are pleasing. I find it a bit crazy that people quote it so wildly out of context that it loses all meaning, but that can be said about any revered text, really.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Both Dead and Alive