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{{quote|Your people have a folk saying: 'If you can’t run your tongue across them, merge with them.' I ask you to give this quaint wisdom your serious consideration.}} |
{{quote|Your people have a folk saying: 'If you can’t run your tongue across them, merge with them.' I ask you to give this quaint wisdom your serious consideration.}} |
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:Amusingly, Chester takes up this particular mangled aphorism and uses it himself later in the novel. |
:Amusingly, Chester takes up this particular mangled aphorism and uses it himself later in the novel. |
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* [[Book Ends]]: The book begins and ends with Sean producing butterflies. |
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* [[Butterfly of Transformation]]: Sean's butterflies at the beginning of the book herald an oncoming change to Greenwich Village; his butterflies at the end herald a change to the entire world. |
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* [[Captain Obvious]]: Partially subverted when Chester points to [[Michael Kurland|Mike]] as an example of [[Alfred North Whitehead]]'s statement that "It requires an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." So he keeps pointing to the obvious everyone has overlooked. |
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Partially subverted when Chester points to [[Michael Kurland|Mike]] as an example of [[Alfred North Whitehead]]'s statement that "It requires an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." So he keeps pointing to the obvious everyone has overlooked. |
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* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Heartbreakingly averted with the bloodthirsty and murderous alien army who all look like beautiful children, set loose by the Lobsters during the final battle. |
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Heartbreakingly averted with the bloodthirsty and murderous alien army who all look like beautiful children, set loose by the Lobsters during the final battle. |
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