Currently reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, and started noticing parallels to The Big Lebowski. Chandler's novel is obviously the chicken that came before the egg, but because I saw the Coen Brothers film first, in my mind, The Big Sleep seems to be paying homage to the Coens.
There is probably an academic term for this experience - something like "reverse intertextuality." If there is no such term, it looks like I just invented it.
I'd better copyright this now.
© Frank Burton 2010
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