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1	-->Harry Driscoll is living in New York City\
2	(if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary living).
3	-->His family is wealthy
4	-->(but Harry Driscoll is not).
5	-->His education is Ivy League
6	-->(but what good is it doing him?).
7	-->His publishing job is entry-level
8	-->(with no exit in sight).
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10	-->BUT
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12	-->Harry Driscoll has a dream
13	-->(if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a dream).
14	-->Harry Driscoll has a girl
15	-->(although intercourse is out of the question).
16	-->Harry Driscoll even has feelings.
17	-->(He asked this girl, one day in the park, to be in his life forever . . . and he meant it!)
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19	The Frog King is a love story by Adam Davies (in that it involves love). It's also [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024735/ a motion picture]] - or planned to be, at any rate.
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21	Not to be confused with the classic FairyTale, "Literature/TheFrogPrince"
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23	A lot of entries are Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries, and have been commented out.
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25	'''This book provides examples of:'''
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27	%% * TheAlcoholic
28	* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Harry reads the dictionary and has logomachy games with Jordie.
29	%% * BittersweetEnding
30	%% * CanNotSpitItOut
31	* CantHaveSexEver: Evie starts the novel off with endometriosis, which makes sex excruciatingly painful.
32	%% * DeadpanSnarker: Harry's friend Keeno
33	%% * DidNotGetTheGirl
34	%% * ICallHimMisterHappy: Evie's 'Jiffy Lube'
35	* InfallibleNarrator: To be fair, Harry's an aspiring writer. Still, 'Her black hair was curling madly in the heat in a gonzo Pre-Raphaelite way I already knew she hated and she smelled of the street - dirty rainwater and hot tar'?
36	%% * IntergenerationalFriendship: Harry and Birdie
37	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be an alcoholic, a failure at his job, a complete asshole to his girlfriend, a compulsive liar, and absolutely self-absorbed - but at least Harry looks after Birdie. Sort of. A little.
38	* PrincessForADay: Harry and Evie have a game called 'Madame Bovary' where they pretend to be famous and try on expensive clothes.
39	%% * TheLoinsSleepTonight: The stress of his 'interactions' with Judith gets to Harry occasionally.
40	%% * LoveMartyr
41	%% * {{Narrator}}
42	%% * NobodyThinksItWillWork
43	* PaintingTheMedium: The text is littered with 'Question' and 'Answer' segments by the narrator/Harry, as well as a 'Correction'.
44	* SophisticatedAsHell: Jordie Wesselesh is a lexicographer, which means he uses words from ''all'' cultures - like 'Cronkite' for news.
45	%% * StreetUrchin
46	* WrongGenreSavvy: Harry hates clichés and the 'Hallmark' idea of love, and tries to avoid being too romantically cliché. Evie eventually points out that he's completely missed the fact that his attitude to life is, by that point, one big {{Wangst}}.

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