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* [[Snowball Lie]]: The basis of the entire novel.
* [[Spotting the Thread]]: Smythe spends weeks studying Bonforte's files on everyone around him to make the masquerade work. He notices that the file on the emperor is nearly empty, and assumes that they don't have much contact... until he meets the emperor, and gets found out, because the point of the files is to help Bonforte remember things about people ''less'' politically important than he is. He's caught when he dutifully plays with the emperor's toy trains instead of teasing him about them.
* [[What Would X Do?|What Would Bonforte Do?]]: Mentioned word for word in the twenty-five years later postscript. Even before then, there's an example when Smythe overrules an adviser on the topic of carrying the Martian life wand — which is a deadly weapon — in the Emperor's presence. Martians have a special dispensation to do so (because their culture demands they take the wand '''everywhere'''), and Bonforte has been adopted as a Martian, so Bonforte '''would''' carry the life wand ... and seeing him do so will assure the Martians that he takes his adoption seriously.
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