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    Harriet's eyes goggled at the sight of the dancing floor.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    "It's dark," Harriet thought. "Very dark," she thought again, "but noisy."

Anon.

The Streets of Laredo
    As I sipped my gin at the Hotel Resplendant...

Jane Austen

    She took her seat at the far end of the hall, which afforded her the best view

    It is a truth no longer universally acknowleged, that a single woman...

the Barney theme song

I wuv you/You wuv me/We're all dancing happily

L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz
    She was awakened by a shock. Harriet sat up and noticed that bright light...

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot
    (Harriett is seated at a small table with a cup of coffee on it...)

Ernest Bramah

the Kai Lung books
    On the third night a female figure was observed to enter the lounge

Berthold Brecht/Kurt Weill

The Ballad of Mack the Knife
    See the dancer, hair sleekly plastered/And his partner, in satin gown

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre
    Dear Reader: I hope I have done well enough in my sketch...

Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight, Moon
    In the hotel lounge/There was an orchestra/And a purple gown

Lois McMaster Bujold

Accepting her drink, she observed that the majority of dancers...

Julius Caesar

The Gallic Wars
    Wilvercombe is divided into three areas:

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland
    Harriett walked away from the table. She was just now the right size...

Agatha Christie

Miss Marple
    Harriet entered the lounge, waved off coffee or a liqueur,...

Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone
    Nothing but the resolution that my interference was not only justified...

Emily Dickinson

She got up from the table--/Watched the dancers waltz--

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes
    "The lady who came from the dining room is unmarried, logical and orderly..."

T.S. Eliot

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    Let us go then, you and I/to the lounge,where music is nigh/

Robert Frost

Provide, provide
    DANCE, DANCE: The woman that came (from London Town)

W.S. Gilbert

Pirates of Penzance
    Excerpt from The Gigolos, Act One

"I'm Called Little Buttercup," from H.M.S. Pinafore
    I'm called Harriet -- MISS Vane;

Kenneth Grahame

"The Song of Mr. Toad" from The Wind in the Willows
    The world has known great dancers,/As choreographers can state.

William Gray and May Hill Arbuthnot

Fun with Dick and Jane
    Harriet walks in the room. She walks to the table. She sees the table.

Dashiell Hammett

I walked into the lounge. The orchestra was playing the kind of waltz...

Heinlein

Time Enough for Love
    The Senior reclined his chair. A serious young woman sat at his feet.

Hemingway

We watched her stand up from the table and walk into the lounge.

Eugene Ionesco

The Bald Soprano
    Harriet Vane, an Englishwoman, enters an English lounge...

Henry James

She arose from her seat at the table, changing her position as...

Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
    Ode for When the Orchestra Stops

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
    Much had she seen before this glittering place

Kipling

Tommy
I went to the 'otel lounge to have meself a drink.

William Langland

Piers Plowman
    In a large lounge with liquor, where lizards lounged with ladies,

D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Harriet started up from the table and made her way through to a dance floor...

C.S. Lewis

Narnia
    Harriett chose a door on the left. She went into a room full of Grown Ups...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Song of Hiawatha
    If you wonder, whence my sad tale?/Whence this tale of love and folly,

George Lucas

Star Wars
    Harriet folded her arms in front of her, hands inside of the sleeves...

Charlotte MacLeod

the Sarah Kelling mysteries
    It's not exactly the same crowd as the Ritz-Carlton," she thought...

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress
    Had they the time to dance all night

Herman Melville

Moby Dick
    Call me Harriet. Some years ago...

Freddie Mercury, performed by Queen

The Bohemian Rhapsody
    Is this the dance lounge?/Is this the Dance Pro Pair?

John Milton

On his blindness
    "Harriet's Musings"

Clement Moore

'Twas the Night before Christmas
    'Twas after the murder, yet there in the hall

Ogden Nash

When Harriet walked in the room she decided to order some coffee

Banjo Patterson

"Man from Snowy River"
    There was movement at the Resplendant for the word had passed around...

Pepys

To the lounge where I had coffee and did watch the dancers.

Georges Perec (Gilbert Adair, trans.)

A Void (La Disparition)
    Finally I got up, making my way into a kind of ballroom.

Elizabeth Peters

the Amelia Peabody mysteries
    I had, with the usual difficulty, persuaded my husband into the evening dress required...

Edgar Allen Poe

The Masque of the Red Death
    A chill clutched Harriett as she looked around the dance-room.

Annabel Lee
    'Twas many and many a year ago in a hotel by the sea,

Alexander Pope

Rape of the Lock
    Miss Harriet walked in the room to see...

Cole Porter

"It's Too Darn Hot" from Kiss Me Kate
    Go in the door of the hotel tonight...

Edward Arlington Robinson

"Richard Cory"
    Whenever Paul Alexis took the floor,/And waltzed a lucky lady 'round the room,

Stan Rogers

Barrett's Privateers (song)
    Oh the year was 1932 (How I wish I was in London now)

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac
    Scene. The lounge of the Hotel Resplendent. ANTOINE approaches CHARIS to ask for a dance;

Damon Runyan

The lounge at the Resplendent is not a place I wish to visit often.

Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey (in Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers)

untitled sonnet
    Hear, then, the waltz, by lounge musicians played

Robert Service

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
    The Demise of Doris

Vikram Seth

The Golden Gate
    Vane's lilly-necked, severe, informal

Dr. Seuss

"It's not my kind of place," thought young Harriett Vane,

Shakespeare

Harriet enters the lounge. She takes a place at an empty table...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias
    Vane had found a dancer from a Russian land,...

Hal Sirowitz

You shouldn't think the good old days are new,...

Wallace Stevens

"Sunday Morning"
    Complacencies of the lounge, and late...

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    (Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey sit in the lounge of the Resplendent...)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Battle of Brunanburh
    Harriet Vane/Sommerville scholar/...

Lady of Shalott
    "Lament for Widow Weldon"

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Casey at the Bat
    The outlook wasn't brilliant for the gigolos that day;

Dylan Thomas

A Child's Christmas in Wales
    "I'll go in and see if there's any coffee left," she thought. And she did that.

Francis Thompson

The Hound of Heaven
    So with unhealthy face,/And unperturbed grace,

J.R.R. Tolkein

Large the lounge was, and the tables laden with drink.

Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds
    Our heroine of this story (for all readers know that the writer is obliged to provide one)...

Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn
    You don't know about me without you've read a book called Strong Poison.

Walt Whitman

"When I saw the Learn'd astronomer"
    When she saw the sleek, bored dancers...

Oscar Wilde

Harriett is seated at a small table in the lounge, drinking coffee.

My friend and I were sitting in the lounge of the hotel...

William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow
    I sat at the table/watching the dancers

P.G. Wodehouse

The Jeeves books
    Feeling that I had done about as much justice to the old bill of fare...

Virginia Woolf

loosely based on Jacob's Room
    Harriet got up from the table and wandered away.

general
    Still thinking of these things Harriet went out into the lounge.

W.B. Yeats

Second Coming
    Spinning and waltzing in a widening arc

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