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In addition to other literary references, John Barth employs a bust of Laocoön in his novella, The End of the Road.
The R. E. M.
song " Laughing " references Laocoön, rendering him female (" Laocoön and her two sons ").
The marble's pose is parodied in the comic book Asterix and the Laurel Wreath.
American author Joyce Carol Oates also references Laocoön in her 1989 novel American Appetites.
In Stave V of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens ( 1843 ), Scrooge awakes on Christmas morning "... making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings.
" Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly begins with an extensive analysis of the Laocoön story.
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