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{{quote| I once overheard two <s>botanists</s> [[Troper|tropers]] arguing over a Damned Thing that had blasphemously <s>sprouted in a college yard.</s> happened on a T.V. show. One claimed that the Damned Thing was a <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] and the other claimed that it was a <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]]. They each had good scholarly arguments, and they were still debating when I left them.}} |
{{quote| I once overheard two <s>botanists</s> [[Troper|tropers]] arguing over a Damned Thing that had blasphemously <s>sprouted in a college yard.</s> happened on a T.V. show. One claimed that the Damned Thing was a <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] and the other claimed that it was a <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]]. They each had good scholarly arguments, and they were still debating when I left them.}} |
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{{quote|The world is forever spawning Damned Things— things that are neither <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] nor <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]], <s>fish</s>[[Bittersweet Ending]] nor <s>fowl</s> [[Earn Your Happy Ending]], [[Blue and Orange Morality|black nor white]]— and the categorical thinker can only regard the spiky and buzzing world of <s>sensory fact</s> [[Canon]] as a profound insult to [[Home Page|his card-index system of classifications.]] Worst of all are the facts which violate <s>"common sense,"</s> "[[Magic |
{{quote|The world is forever spawning Damned Things— things that are neither <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] nor <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]], <s>fish</s>[[Bittersweet Ending]] nor <s>fowl</s> [[Earn Your Happy Ending]], [[Blue and Orange Morality|black nor white]]— and the categorical thinker can only regard the spiky and buzzing world of <s>sensory fact</s> [[Canon]] as a profound insult to [[Home Page|his card-index system of classifications.]] Worst of all are the facts which violate <s>"common sense,"</s> "[[Magic A Is Magic A]]," that dreary bog of sullen prejudice and muddy inertia. The whole history of <s>science</s> TV Tropes is the odyssey of a pixilated card-indexer perpetually sailing between such Damned Things and desperately juggling his classifications to fit them in.|Hagberd Celiene, of the [[The Illuminatus Trilogy]], on tv tropes}} |
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{{quote|"Go ahead, wreck your life,<br /> |
{{quote|"Go ahead, wreck your life,<br /> |
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