joked in retrospect, perhaps he should have titled the song, "I Am The Carpenter." Some verses of the poem are referenced in the song "Just One Lifetime", by Sting and Shaggy, included in their collaborative album 44/876. Scottish singer and songwriter Donovan put the poem to music on his 1971 album, HMS Donovan. The song "That's What Living is to Me" by Jimmy Buffett (on the 1988 album Hot Water) includes the line "The time has come, the walrus said/and little oysters hide their head." Literature A line from the poem was used by O. Henry for the title of his 1904 book Cabbages and Kings. In Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, speculators offer J. Arnold Ross opportunities to improve his wealth through wartime investments in "shoes, or ships, or sealing wax". In Ayn Rand's 1943 novel The Fountainhead, the book's main villain — scheming architecture critic and socialist activist Ellsworth Toohey — launches a vicious campaign against the protagonist, unconventional architect Howard Roark. Toohey prefaces his article with a paraphrase of Carrol: "The time has come," the Walrus said/ "To talk of many things:/ Of ships—and shoes—and Howard Roark/ And cabbages—and kings/ And why the sea is boiling hot—/ And whether Roark has wings." Lines were used as clues in the Ellery Queen mystery story "The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party". In The Clocks by Agatha Christie (1963), Hercule Poirot quotes part of the poem to his visiting mentee, Colin Lamb, who is trying to find the importance of clocks found at a murder scene. The Lucy Maud Montgomery character Anne quotes the part of this poem when talking about things she might learn in college in the book Anne of the Island. A line from the poem was used as the title of the 1965 book Why The Sea Is Boiling Hot: A Symposium On The Church And The World. It was a collection of essays by a group of leading literary and political writers concerning the place of the church in 1960s Canadian society, commissioned by the then-Board of Evangelism and Social Service of the United Church of Canada. The surreal short story "The Sea was Wet as Wet Could Be" by Gahan Wilson, first published in Playboy in 1967, was inspired by the poem and includes large portions of it. In the Kinnikuman manga series, the villainous wrestler and superman Neptuneman tells the tale to the good-natured