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* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Diotallevi
* [[Arc Number]]: 120.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: A really peculiar inversion with the garrulous publisher's habit of starting out hyperbolic in his praise of things and then (apparently without realizing it) taking an abrupt downturn. E.g. "It is a palace! A dwelling fit for kings! I'll put it even more strongly: It's a genuine Piemontese villa!"
** An example done straight is in when Casaubon mentiones the Borborites, who rip out fetuses from women's bodies, crush them in mortars and eat them with honey and pepper. Diotellavi says: "How revolting, honey and pepper!"
* [[Author Avatar]]: A lot of Belbo's stories about his wartime childhood are directly taken from Eco's biography. Especially the trumpet episode.
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* [[Femme Fatale]]: Lorenza, with a few twists.
* [[Genius Bonus]] / [[Shown Their Work]] : After all, it is an [[Umberto Eco]] novel...
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] : Belbo, Casaubon and Diotallevi create "The Plan", an elaborate and ridiculously [[Trope Overdosed]] [[Conspiracy Theory]] as nothing more than a fun project for killing some free time and [[Stealth Parody|for mocking]] all the [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]] theories and secret histories they were forced to read while editing the manuscripts of various wacko authors for publishing. Their whole prank gradually starts getting out of hand and [[Your Mind Makes It Real|sounding]] [[Paranoia Fuel|far too real]], since it's often even [[Shown Their Work|more convincing]] than all the [[Who Writes This Crap?|pulp conspiracy theories]] it was supposed to make fun of in the first place.
* [[How We Got Here]]: Casaubon's narration
* [[Kabbalah]]: The branches/spheres of the kabbalistic tree of life serve as chapter headings.
* [[Last
* [[Ley Line]]: Part of the conspiracy theory.
* [[No Name Given]]: The first names of Casaubon and Diotallevi are never revealed.
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