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Darby's exclamation: "with all the spaghetti-joints in this town to choose from, are you saying those dadblame Russians have come in here?" is reminiscent of a similar line from the film Casablanca: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine."

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the dirt, the blood-red dirt

This line recalls Homer's "wine-dark sea" first found in The Iliad (Bk VII) in a scene in which Achilles grieves for the death of Patroclus. Given the context here, it might be thought of as "mock-heroic."