<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> <Li> In The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Underground Terror", James West briefly quotes from the poem when he first meets the episode's villain . </Li> <Li> The poem inspired the song "Just One Lifetime" by Sting and Shaggy off their album 44 / 876 . </Li>

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