Welcome to Station 1..... Think about this.... Have you ever been engrossed in a book, turning page after page, when suddenly a phrase, a line, or even a whole scene feels strikingly familiar? Or perhaps you're watching a movie, and a particular image, a specific dialogue exchange, evokes a sense of déjà vu, a feeling that you've encountered it before? You may say familiar, right?? This isn't just a trick of the mind. It's likely the subtle, yet powerful, presence of an allusion. What is an allusion? An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. Allusions can be direct or indirect, meaning that they might explicitly state the name of the thing they're referring to, or they might hint at it in other, subtler ways. Allusions to other works of literature are often harder to identify and understand than allusions to events or people, since they require a reader to hav...