cry me a river

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They played with ideas, borrowing from books like _Farenheit_451_, until           Moore, in frustration, compiled a list of the elements he wanted to           draw together for the piece. He writes:

The list was something as follows: Orwell. Huxley. Thomas Disch. Judge Dredd. Harlan Ellison's "Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman." "Catman" and "Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" by the same author. Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes and Theatre of Blood. David Bowie. The Shadow. Nightraven. Batman. Farenheit 451. The writings of the New Worlds school of science fiction. Max Ernst's painting "Europe After the Rains." Thomas Pynchon. The atmosphere of British Second World War films. The Prisoner. Robin Hood. Dick Turpin...

from An Annotation of Literary, Historic, and Artistic References in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel, V For Vendetta.

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