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''"This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not told yet, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside [[Sleeping Beauty]]'s castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows."'' }}
''One for the Morning Glory'' is a [[Troperrific]] fantasy novel by John Barnes. The characters are all aware that they feature in [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]], but they are quite aware that they do not know which roles they play in the stories.
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And word play. Lots and lots of word play. The book is full of malapropisms used seriously and consistently throughout the work.
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* [[All Myths Are True]]
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Used freely, and [[Lampshaded]]; when Sir John drinks tea, he thinks it's an anachronism, but the Duke points out that such problem exists only the lands that are merely actual.
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]
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* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Invoked
* [[Dying Alone]]
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