<Li> In the Ultimate Muscle manga series the villanious wrestler and superman Neptuneman turns the good - natured Seiuchin (a walrus - themed hero and wrestler) evil by telling him the tale . The tale drives Seiuchin to embrace his own predatory nature and start displaying an egotistical streak . </Li> <Li> In the 1999 film Dogma, the Matt Damon character Loki tells a nun this story as his reason for becoming atheist . </Li> <Li> In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two, the poem is playfully quoted as "' The time has come,' said Dr. Dimitri Moisevitch to his old friend Heywood Floyd,' to talk of many things . Of shoes and spaceships and sealing wax, but mostly of monoliths and malfunctioning computers ."' in reference to the events from 2001: A Space Odyssey . </Li> <Li> In Sandra Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street, Esperanza recites the poem to Ruthie in the vignette "Edna's Ruthie ." </Li>

The time has come the walrus said to talk of other things