"and the physically unimposing men Thurber often paired with larger women in his cartoons, Mitty is dominated and put upon by his wife. Like the man who saw the unicorn, he escapes via fantasies. A similar dynamic is found in the Thurber story ""The Curb in the Sky"", in which a man starts recounting his own dreams as anecdotes as an attempt to stop his wife from constantly correcting him on the details. In his 2001 book ""The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber"" (), author Thomas Fensch suggests that the character was largely"
"with the story. The protagonist, Detective Inspector Sam Tyler tells a criminal that he, Tyler, is a time traveller from the future. When the criminal tells Tyler's colleagues of this, in an attempt to discredit him, Tyler denies being the source of the 'delusion' and the criminal is discredited instead. ""The Sloths"", a song by Red Krayola, has been described as ""a peculiar rewrite of a James Thurber short story (The Unicorn in the Garden)"". The Unicorn in the Garden ""The Unicorn in the Garden"" is a short story written by James Thurber. One of the most famous of Thurber's"
"James Thurber's whimsical fairy tale ""The White Deer"" is transformed into a young woman when trapped by hunters, but her only memories are of fields and trees so no one is sure if she was originally a deer or a princess. The white stag played an important role in C.S. Lewis' ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" novel. The Pevensie children (now grown-up kings and queens) hunt the Stag, hoping to gain wishes for catching it. It is in their pursuit of the Stag that they stumble back through the wardrobe and into their own world, returned to childhood."
"James Thurber James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories published mainly in ""The New Yorker"" magazine, such as ""The Catbird Seat"", and collected in his numerous books. He was one of the most popular humorists of his time, as he celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. He wrote the Broadway comedy ""The Male Animal"" in collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent; it was later adapted into a film starring Henry Fonda and"
"The 13 Clocks The 13 Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber and illustrator Marc Simont in 1950, while he was completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to free a maiden from the clutches of an evil duke. It invokes many fairy tale motifs. The story is noted for Thurber's constant, complex wordplay, and his use of an almost continuous internal meter, with occasional hidden rhymes — akin to blank verse, but with no line breaks to advertise the"
"surgeon performing a one-of-a-kind surgery, then as a deadly assassin testifying in a courtroom, and then as a Royal Air Force pilot volunteering for a daring, secret suicide mission to bomb an ammunition dump. As the story ends, Mitty imagines himself facing a firing squad, ""inscrutable to the last."" Each of the fantasies is inspired by some detail of Mitty's mundane surroundings: Mitty is very much a Thurber protagonist, so much so that he has been called ""the archetype for dreamy, hapless, Thurber Man"". Like many of his male characters, such as the husband in ""The Unicorn in the Garden"""
"be a human boy. Sleeper Maladrek – Believed to be a Sleeper, Maladrek is actually a Littling who was transformed. Nimbus names him Lux. Darts – An evil robot scientist. Ten Fusion – A tiny robot who asks Nimbus to help save his family. Sleeper Lotus – The Sleeper responsible for setting the orphanage on fire. Cranky Slumber Sharks – These Slumber creatures infest the Lake of Snore. Ensign Oppy Abol – Nimbus’ friend from Nebtune 2. Nimbus Littling's first Ebook entitled “Nimbus Littling & the Flu from Nebtune 2” is available on iPad 2, iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone."
"constituted genuine espionage, and that Temish had most likely created his identity as a ""spy"" out of whole cloth. He was referred to a panel of Army psychiatrists, who determined Temish to be expressing symptoms of histrionic personality disorder and pathological delusion. They concluded that he had been ""living in a dream"" and that he had built up a ""towering, fraudulent persona"" as a secret agent to cope with what he saw as an uninteresting and pointless life, in the manner of Walter Mitty – a famous fictional character by James Thurber who imagines himself in various exciting scenarios to"
"""The Vampire: A Phantasm"", and played the title role during its long run. Alexandre Dumas, père also used the character in an 1852 play. A Lord Ruthven also exists in Tom Holland's novel, ""Lord of the Dead"". Lord Ruthven is actually Lord Byron. A Lord Ruthven also appeared in the Swedish novel ""Vampyren"" (1848), the first published work by author and poet Viktor Rydberg; as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that he is inspired by him in name only. This Ruthven is not a supernatural being, but a lunatic believing himself to be a vampire. In ""The Count of"
"on one occasion, pretended to be crippled and attended a faith healer revival, only to jump up and proclaim herself healed. When Thurber was seven years old, he and one of his brothers were playing a game of William Tell, when his brother shot James in the eye with an arrow. He lost that eye, and the injury later caused him to become almost entirely blind. He was unable to participate in sports and other activities in his childhood because of this injury, but he developed a creative mind which he used to express himself in writings. Neurologist V .S."
"took it upon himself to find a way of lifting the curse – risking his own safety to try to track down the mystical gemstone Twilight. Auberon (comics) Auberon, is a character who appears primarily in DC Comics' adult-oriented Vertigo line. He is inspired by (and implied to be the same character as) the faerie king Oberon from William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". As part of his comic ""The Sandman"", writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him. Having introduced"
"ineffectual dreamer and appears in several dictionaries. ""The American Heritage Dictionary"" defines a Walter Mitty as ""an ordinary often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs"". The most famous of Thurber's inept male protagonists, the character is considered ""the archetype for dreamy, hapless, Thurber Man"". When referencing actor Errol Flynn, Warner Brothers studio head, Jack L. Warner, noted in his autobiography, ""My First Hundred Years in Hollywood"", ""To the Walter Mittys of the world he [Flynn] was all the heroes in one magnificent, sexy, animal package"". In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that"
"used for the dust jacket of ""The Thurber Album"" (1952). James Thurber James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories published mainly in ""The New Yorker"" magazine, such as ""The Catbird Seat"", and collected in his numerous books. He was one of the most popular humorists of his time, as he celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. He wrote the Broadway comedy ""The Male Animal"" in collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent; it"
"the edge of the stage, telling the story of a particular night from his (Thurber's) childhood, when a collapsing bed provoked remarkable reactions from members of his eccentric extended family. The fictionalized reminiscence first appeared in ""The New Yorker"" on July 8, 1933, and was reprinted in the book ""My Life and Hard Times"" (1933). Fables (Part 1) is a set of three of Thurber's ""Fables for Our Time"", originally staged by James Starbuck. In each fable, the nominally animal characters dress and behave as humans. It includes the following: ""If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox"" - narrated by"
"to Midnight"", set in 2132, Chopper makes a background appearance on a talkshow. The teenagers in this story are unaware of who he is, and view the show as being for adults; the POV character believes Chopper looks tired and lost, looking at footage of ""when he used to matter"". In the 2012 film Dredd, Chopper's name, along with his 'smiley' scrawler tag, can be seen painted on a wall on one of the floors of Peach Trees. He has appeared in numerous strips: Chopper (Judge Dredd) Chopper (also known as Marlon Shakespeare) is a fictional character appearing in British"
"of some of those works, but a large amount has yet to be collected in book form. As of April 2011, many of these works are out of print. Jim Woodring James William Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine ""Jim"", and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels. Since he was a child, Woodring has experienced hallucinatory ""apparitions"", which have inspired much of his"
"Blunderbore Blunderbore (also recorded as Blunderboar, Thunderbore, Blunderbus, or Blunderbuss) is a giant of Cornish and English folklore. A number of folk and fairy tales include a giant named Blunderbore, most notably ""Jack the Giant Killer"". The stories usually associate him with the area of Penwith. Cornish folklore remembers Blunderbore as living in Ludgvan Lese (a manor in Ludgvan), where he terrorized travelers heading north to St Ives. In ""Jack the Giant Killer"" he is the second or third giant (along with his brother Rebecks) killed by the hero Jack. Under the influence of that story, the name ""Blunderbore"" is"
"shortly before his death. Sandman (DC Comics) The Sandman is the pseudonym of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. They have appeared in stories of various genres, including the pulp detective character Wesley Dodds, superheroes such as Garrett Sanford and Hector Hall, and mythic fantasy characters more commonly called by the name Dream. Named after the folklore character that is said to bring pleasant dreams to children, each has had some thematic connection to dreaming, and efforts have been made to tie them into a common continuity within the DC Universe. Wesley Dodds is the"
"based on Thurber himself. This is consistent with Thurber's self-described imaginative interpretations of shapes seen with his ""two-fifths vision"" in his essay ""The Admiral on the Wheel"". Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran suggests that Thurber may have had Charles Bonnet syndrome, a neurological condition that causes vivid and bizarre hallucinations even in blind patients. Thurber's love of wordplay can be seen in his coining of several nonsense terms in the story, including the pseudo-medical jargon ""obstreosis of the ductal tract"", ""streptothricosis"", and the recurring onomatopoeia of ""ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa."" The medical nonsense that ""coreopsis has set in"" uses the name of a flower which"
"Thumbling ""Thumbling"" and ""Thumbling's Travels"" (also known as ""Thumbling as Journeyman"") are two German fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. They are tales number 37 and 45 in the collection and are related to the English Tom Thumb, whose title the Grimms' stories often share when translated into English. The two stories do not feature the same character. The original German names for the two characters are ""Daumsdick"" (Literally, ""Thumb-thick"") for the former, and ""Daumerling"" for the latter. It is Aarne-Thompson type 700, Tom Thumb. In the first story, ""Thumbling"", a poor childless peasant couple wishes for a child"
"of the axles from the wagon and uses it to fight and eventually fatally wound the giant. In his dying breaths, the giant confers all his wealth to Tom and requests a proper burial. Blunderbore appears as a monster type in the computer game ""Diablo II"". Blunderbore Blunderbore (also recorded as Blunderboar, Thunderbore, Blunderbus, or Blunderbuss) is a giant of Cornish and English folklore. A number of folk and fairy tales include a giant named Blunderbore, most notably ""Jack the Giant Killer"". The stories usually associate him with the area of Penwith. Cornish folklore remembers Blunderbore as living in Ludgvan"
"Camber examine a statue of ""Saint Camber"" that has been erected. As Cinhil leaves, he is still unaware that the man at his side is actually Camber MacRorie. In 1979, ""Saint Camber"" ranked 18th in an annual poll of ""Locus magazine"" readers, placing it between Michael Moorcock's ""Gloriana"" and C.J. Cherryh's ""The Faded Sun: Shon'jir"". (The poll was won by Vonda N. McIntyre for her novel, ""Dreamsnake"".) ""Saint Camber"" was also a finalist for the 1979 Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy, an award determined by the members of the World Science Fiction Convention. The other finalists were Roger Zelazny's ""The"
"Auberon (comics) Auberon, is a character who appears primarily in DC Comics' adult-oriented Vertigo line. He is inspired by (and implied to be the same character as) the faerie king Oberon from William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". As part of his comic ""The Sandman"", writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him. Having introduced Shakespeare, Gaiman then decided to tell the story of the first play that the writer wrote for Dream in payment of the bargain. He turned to"
"Ramachandran suggests that Thurber's imagination may be partly explained by Charles Bonnet syndrome, a neurological condition which causes complex visual hallucinations in people who have suffered some level of visual loss. (This was the basis for the piece ""The Admiral on the Wheel"".) From 1913 to 1918, Thurber attended Ohio State University where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. It was during this time he rented the house on 77 Jefferson Avenue, which became Thurber House in 1984. He never graduated from the university because his poor eyesight prevented him from taking a mandatory Reserve Officers'"
"Jim Woodring James William Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine ""Jim"", and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels. Since he was a child, Woodring has experienced hallucinatory ""apparitions"", which have inspired much of his surreal work. He keeps an ""autojournal"" of his dreams, some of which have formed the basis of some of his comics. His most famous creation is fictional—the pantomime comics"
"John O'Dreams John O'Dreams although often called a traditional Irish song, was written by Bill Caddick, using a tune by Tchaikovsky. The titular central character is equivalent to the Sandman, a fictional character who sends people to sleep. The song portrays all people as being ""equal in sleep"": In this context, sleep may also be considered a metaphor for death, both as an eventual equalizer of all things, and for the allusion to a ""crossing over,"" as in a river, a prevalent theme in Western spiritual beliefs. The most popular arrangements are by English singer/songwriter Bill Caddick. Singers Gordon Bok,"
"a Golden Age character, ""The Sandman"". In his version, the Sandman becomes Dream, the Lord of Dreams (also known, to various characters throughout the series, as Morpheus, Oneiros, the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai'ckul, and Lord L'Zoril), who is essentially the anthropomorphic personification of dreams. At the start of the series, Morpheus is captured by an occult ritual and held prisoner for 70 years. Morpheus escapes in the modern day and, after avenging himself upon his captors, sets about rebuilding his kingdom, which has fallen into disrepair in"
"Vertigo line have been set in the Dreaming, most notably a series of the same name (chief author Alisa Kwitney). Dream (comics) Dream is a fictional character who first appeared in the first issue of ""The Sandman"", written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greater than gods, Dream is both lord and personification of all dreams and stories, all that is not in reality (which, in turn, Dream may define by his existence). He has taken many names, including Morpheus and Oneiros, and his appearance can change depending"
"the similar Cornish fairy tale ""Tom the Tinkeard"" (or ""Tom the Tinkard""), a local variant of the more famous ""Tom Hickathrift"". Here, Blunderbore has built a hedge over the King's Highway between St Ives to Marazion, claiming the land as his own. The motif of the abduction of women appears in this version, as Blunderbore has kidnapped at least twenty women as his wives. The hero Tom awakes the giant from a nap while taking a wagon and oxen back from St Ives to Marazion. Blunderbore tears up an elm to swat Tom off his property, but Tom slides one"
"the rope to a beam, slides down the rope, and slits their throats. A giant named Blunderbore appears in the similar Cornish fairy tale ""Tom the Tinkeard"" (or ""Tom the Tinkard""), a local variant of ""Tom Hickathrift"". Here, Blunderbore has built a hedge over the King's Highway between St Ives and Marazion, claiming the land as his own. The motif of the abduction of women appears in this version, as Blunderbore has kidnapped at least twenty women to be his wives. The hero Tom rouses the giant from a nap while taking a wagon and oxen back from St Ives"
"Dream King, Dream-Sneak, the Cat of Dreams, Murphy, Kai'ckul and Lord L'Zoril, who is the anthropomorphic personification of dreams. At the start of the series, Morpheus is captured by an occult ritual and held prisoner for 70 years. Morpheus escapes in the modern day and, after avenging himself upon his captors, sets about rebuilding his kingdom, which has fallen into disrepair in his absence. The character's initial haughty and often cruel manner begins to soften after his years of imprisonment at the start of the series, but the challenge of undoing past sins and changing old ways is an enormous"
"Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated is a 1940 book by James Thurber. Thurber updates some old fables and creates some new ones of his own. Notably there is 'The Bear Who Could Take It Or Leave It Alone' about a bear who lapses into alcoholism before sobering up and going too far that way. (He used to say 'See what the bears in the back room will have.') Also an updated version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' which ends with the immortal lines, ""even in a nightcap a wolf"
"the gangsters resolved to kill him. After his apparent death, Sonámbulo was buried underneath the wrestling ring the Olympic Auditorium. The hero did not die however, instead he fell into a deep sleep only to awake thirty years later. Upon awakening, the luchador discovered he had the ability to """"see"""" people's dreams and go without sleep indefinitely. Using his new-found powers, Sonambulo becomes a private investigator, devoting his life to fighting the criminal element and the dark forces of the supernatural. Sonambulo Sonámbulo (""Sleepwalker"") is a fictional character from the American independent comic book series of the same name created"