How Are Things in Glocca Morra? to the perfect sentence: "Last night, I dreamt of Glocca Morra...again." (The reference parodies: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again", the famous first line of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca.") The song is referenced in the "Sports Night" episode "Celebrities" (Season 2, Episode 15) and the song title is directly used as the title of an episode from Season 1 (Episode 17). When Goody Rickles (Don Rickles' sillier look-alike) comically mangles the name of the deadly compound "Pyrogranulate" in the comic book "Jimmy Olsen" 139, by Jack Kirby, what comes out is "Pyro-Glocca-Morra". In an episode of "All
The House on the Strand the phone but suddenly finds he is unable to grip it. The ending is left open: is Dick dead, paralysed or simply collapsing? Daphne du Maurier said of it: "What about the hero of "The House on the Strand"? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don’t really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don’t you?" The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with