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Before there was/were...	There was/were...
The electric telegraph	The optical telegraph
The ending of Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks	The ending of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #1
Cloud City of Bespin	Stratos of Ardana
(The Matrix, 1999)	(Blade Runner, 1982)
Bernstein's America from West Side Story	Copeland's Danza De Jalisco from Three Latin American Sketches
Gyorgy Ligeti's Atmospheres	Arnold Schoenberg's "Summer Morning by a Lake" (aka "Farben"/"Colors") from Five Pieces for Orchestra
Amadeus (the movie, 1984)	Mozart and Salieri (the opera, 1898)
Anakin-soon-to-be-Lord-Vader clawing his way up the lava bank on planet Mustafar with his one remaining mechanical arm in SW:RotS	Ah-nold as the T-800 Model 101 clawing his way along the catwalk in the steel foundry with his one remaining mechanical arm in T2:JD
James Tiptree, Jr.	Billy Tipton
Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds and Frank Zappa's Freak Out!
1984 and Brave New World	We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Hogwarts	Endor College
Joyce's Ulysses	The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue	Ravel's Piano Concerto in G
Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit	Balakyrev's Islamey
Ravel's Bolero	Chopin's Bolero
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde	Berlioz' Romeo et Juliette
The Nightmare Before Christmas	A Kidnapped Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum
Teletubbyland	The Village
Hippies	The Cathars of Medieval France
Stars Wars	Hidden Fortress
Bangalore World University	San Narciso Community College
Buckaroo Banzai	The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
Coruscant	Trantor
Frankenstein	The Golem
Anakin Skywalker	Elphaba of Oz
Coca-cola	Vin Mariani
Austin Powers	Evelyn Tremble
H.R.Giger's Alien	Monstro the Whale
Toy Story	The Brave Little Toaster