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* [[Girl Friday]]: Garamond is referred to as a "Man Friday"
* [[God Is Inept]]: In Anton's story, after the Vatican is unable to elect a new Pope, God talks to them and tells them to get Aignan (who has put himself on an island) as he is the perfect image of a martyr and would be perfect. After some problems, several members of the Church get to the island except he isn't there.
{{quote| "... proof that Our Lord is occassionally wrong, a notion that brings about a profound diminution of faith in His flock... So God, too, alas is only human."}}
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: {{spoiler|Douglas Haig and Olga}}.
* [[Hallucinations]]: Anton suffers from these.
* [[The Insomniac]]: Anton, of the realistic variation.
* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: The summary of the majority of the chapters, though they are usually unimportant to the plot.
{{quote| ''In which you will find a carp scornfully turning down a halva fit for a king''}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Subverted:
{{quote| '''Aignan:''' "Now, now, Sphinx, no hamming it up."}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: Discussed in the chapter titled: ''Which, notwithstanding a kind of McGuffin, has no ambition to rival [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]]''
** Augustus' ring.