All The Tropes

Meeting Influential People in The Afterlife: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Meeting Influential People in The Afterlife (view source)

Revision as of 19:44, 7 February 2021

1 byte removed ,  3 years ago
→‎Literature
VisualWikitext
Line 29:
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Print]]: In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', the protagonist not only meets but is guided by [[Virgil]], who died over a millennium before the poem was written.
** Since [[Larry Niven|Niven]] and [[Jerry Pournelle|Pournelle]]'s novel ''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]'' has a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the Inferno in ''The Divine Comedy'', its protagonist is also guided by somebody famous. Exactly who the guide ''is'' is a spoiler - we'll just call him "Benny" here.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1866637"