Sua suposição estava correta. Este endereço foi escolhido pelo escritor X-Men Chris Claremont, um ex-aluno do Bard College, em Nova York, a uma hora de carro de Westchester. É provável que ele tenha sido capaz de visitar fisicamente o suposto local e escolher uma rua tranquila para situar a localização (fictícia) da Escola de Magia e Bruxaria de Xavier.
Por que ele escolheu este endereço específico, é digno de nota que Claremont cita Shakespeare como um de seus colegas de trabalho. > principais influenciadores . É certamente possível que ele tenha sido atraído para o local por causa de suas conotações com Macbeth, Greymalkin sendo o familiar de uma das três bruxas, um espírito disfarçado de um gato humilde da mesma forma que a academia de Xavier desmente uma identidade secreta como a casa de os X-Men.Chalk it up to Chris Claremont. A comics writer who took over the then-failing X-Men franchise in the 1970s and brought it back to fruition by penning several classic story arcs and focusing on character development, Claremont attended Bard as an undergraduate. “What’s the point of going to a great school if you can’t make it a slightly supporting character in a cool comic series?” he told Almanac. Claremont admits that making Annandale Jean Grey’s childhood home was his call, but says that he wasn’t aware of Professor X’s relationship to Bard.
Claremont recognized the importance of tethering the fantasy world of comics to the real world. “The location of Xavier’s School in Westchester County is something originally established by Stan [Lee] in the opening issues of the series,” says the author. “My contribution to that rubric was to take his general placement and give it more specificity, creating a street address and a real sense of place. Its proximity to New York was a matter of convenience and publishing policy: Everyone at Marvel was located in or close to New York – unlike DC, where the JLA [Justice League of America] characters were placed in fictional analogues for the real world (Metropolis, Gotham, Star City and the like). This way, writers and pencilers could frame the story’s events within a common physical reality familiar to both creators and readers. Everyone’s writing and drawing and reading what they all know, which (for me, anyway) makes the adventures that much more plausible and a whole lot more fun.”
First Witch: Where the place?
Second Witch: Upon the heath.
Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch: I come, Greymalkin!