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{{quote|''Gully Foyle is my name |
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''And Terra is my nation |
''And Terra is my nation |
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''Deep space is my dwelling place |
''Deep space is my dwelling place |
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''And death's my destination'' }} |
''And death's my destination'' }} |
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* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Averted -- Once he's rich, Foyle uses his money to have implants and circuitry put into his body that give him super-strength and amazing reflexes. |
* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Averted -- Once he's rich, Foyle uses his money to have implants and circuitry put into his body that give him super-strength and amazing reflexes. |
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* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: In fact, it's outright illegal leading to, somewhat unsurprisingly, underground religions. People who take part in such things are normally viewed as something akin to sexual deviants: |
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: In fact, it's outright illegal leading to, somewhat unsurprisingly, underground religions. People who take part in such things are normally viewed as something akin to sexual deviants: |
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{{quote|''"Filthy pictures, signore? Cellar Christians, kneeling, praying, singing psalms, kissing cross? Very naughty. Very smutty, signore. Entertain your friends ... Excite the ladies."''}} |
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* [[Phlebotinum]]: PyrE -- {{spoiler|a ''psychically'' activated nuclear explosive}}. |
* [[Phlebotinum]]: PyrE -- {{spoiler|a ''psychically'' activated nuclear explosive}}. |
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* [[Rape Is Love]]: As close to love as anything in this book gets, anyway. |
* [[Rape Is Love]]: As close to love as anything in this book gets, anyway. |
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* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Dagenham. Mildly subverted in that he can avoid causing damage if he limits his interactions with the world outside his radiation-proof chamber. |
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Dagenham. Mildly subverted in that he can avoid causing damage if he limits his interactions with the world outside his radiation-proof chamber. |
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* [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]: Possibly the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|most memorable passage]] in the book, delivered to humanity as a whole by a man who began the story as a mindless, uneducated drone. |
* [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]: Possibly the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|most memorable passage]] in the book, delivered to humanity as a whole by a man who began the story as a mindless, uneducated drone. |
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{{quote|''"You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you... Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you."''}} |
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** Note that it's a ''inversion'' of this trope: while in its classical form a [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]] is delivered by a poor uneducated character to his or her social betters, neither Gully, nor his auditory is either. Gully ''was'' a mindless drone barely eligible to be called a sapient, but has since jerked himself out of this stupor, and he tells the very people he was some time ago that ''they'' [[Took a Level In Badass|could do the same]] -- a sort of inspirational [[World of Cardboard Speech]]. |
** Note that it's a ''inversion'' of this trope: while in its classical form a [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]] is delivered by a poor uneducated character to his or her social betters, neither Gully, nor his auditory is either. Gully ''was'' a mindless drone barely eligible to be called a sapient, but has since jerked himself out of this stupor, and he tells the very people he was some time ago that ''they'' [[Took a Level In Badass|could do the same]] -- a sort of inspirational [[World of Cardboard Speech]]. |
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* [[Unconventional Formatting]]: Gully temporarily suffers from synesthesia after a head trauma, which Bester represents with modified typeface. |
* [[Unconventional Formatting]]: Gully temporarily suffers from synesthesia after a head trauma, which Bester represents with modified typeface. |