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* DependingOnTheWriter: highlighted. Particular characters change their attitude towards the main character very often, while Medusa, Eurydice, Vermeer's girl and Melanie seem to be more or less different aspects of one personality.
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* DependingOnTheWriter: highlighted. Particular characters change their attitude towards the main character very often, while Medusa, Eurydice, Vermeer's Creator/JohannesVermeer's girl and Melanie seem to be more or less different aspects of one personality.
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If [[TheChosenOne Neo]] had never found his way out of Film/TheMatrix, his life could have look similar to that of the protagonist of Russell Hoban's novel, which is a mix of PostModernism, MagicRealism, and [[ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], with some wordplay and a pinch of ScienceFiction. The result is very metafictional and full of dream logic, resulting in a total MindScrew.
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If [[TheChosenOne Neo]] had never found his way out of Film/TheMatrix, his life could have look similar to that of the protagonist of Russell Hoban's novel, which is a mix of PostModernism, MagicRealism, and [[ClassicalMythology [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], with some wordplay and a pinch of ScienceFiction. The result is very metafictional and full of dream logic, resulting in a total MindScrew.
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The main character, Herman Orff, who has a slight obsession over [[GirlWithAPearlEarring one of Vermeer's paintings]] and in his free time chats with a non-existing entity calling itself Kraken, makes a living by adapting greatest literary works into comic books, but in the meantime unsuccessfully tries to write a novel. Desperately searching for ideas, he finds an ad which claims that the advertised company is able to help the writers suffering from creative drought. It turns out that the ad had been made by the former boyfriend of the former girlfriend of Orff, but it doesn't stop Orff from using the mysterious machine activating neurons in the new regions of the brain. After using the machine, he finds the Orpheus' head in the sewer, picks it up and listens to its story, in which Eurydice seems to strangely overlap with a woman whom he once had loved. The hero tries to work things out. Unsurprisingly, things only go stranger.
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The main character, Herman Orff, who has a slight obsession over [[GirlWithAPearlEarring [[Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring one of Vermeer's paintings]] and in his free time chats with a non-existing entity calling itself Kraken, makes a living by adapting greatest literary works into comic books, but in the meantime unsuccessfully tries to write a novel. Desperately searching for ideas, he finds an ad which claims that the advertised company is able to help the writers suffering from creative drought. It turns out that the ad had been made by the former boyfriend of the former girlfriend of Orff, but it doesn't stop Orff from using the mysterious machine activating neurons in the new regions of the brain. After using the machine, he finds the Orpheus' head in the sewer, picks it up and listens to its story, in which Eurydice seems to strangely overlap with a woman whom he once had loved. The hero tries to work things out. Unsurprisingly, things only go stranger.
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-->''At that moment the waiter appeared with our starters. I'd ordered grapefruit but I found on my plate the sliced-off top of the head of Orpheus. It was inverted like a bowl from which I was about to spoon up the brain.''
-->'''Excuse me,' I said to Kraken and the others. I quickly wrapped the half-head of Orpheus in a napkin and made for the stairs.''
-->'''Is everything all right, sir?' said our waiter as I almost knocked him down.''
-->'''It's perfectly lodza nurvurli,' I said, 'thank you.'' '
If [[TheChosenOne Neo]] had never found his way out of Film/TheMatrix, his life could have look similar to that of the protagonist of Russell Hoban's novel, which is a mix of PostModernism, MagicRealism, and [[ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], with some wordplay and a pinch of ScienceFiction. The result is very metafictional and full of dream logic, resulting in a total MindScrew.
The main character, Herman Orff, who has a slight obsession over [[GirlWithAPearlEarring one of Vermeer's paintings]] and in his free time chats with a non-existing entity calling itself Kraken, makes a living by adapting greatest literary works into comic books, but in the meantime unsuccessfully tries to write a novel. Desperately searching for ideas, he finds an ad which claims that the advertised company is able to help the writers suffering from creative drought. It turns out that the ad had been made by the former boyfriend of the former girlfriend of Orff, but it doesn't stop Orff from using the mysterious machine activating neurons in the new regions of the brain. After using the machine, he finds the Orpheus' head in the sewer, picks it up and listens to its story, in which Eurydice seems to strangely overlap with a woman whom he once had loved. The hero tries to work things out. Unsurprisingly, things only go stranger.
!!Exemplifies the following tropes:
* AllMythsAreTrue: not in the FantasyKitchenSink way, but rather as overlapping realities.
* AuthorAvatar: Herman Orff, who is a novelist (check), reworking mythological themes (check) by the means of popcultural devices (check).
* BatmanGambit: on the basis of events which would otherwise be unexplainable, Orff suspects that this is the case.
* BilingualBonus: expressions in classic Greek.
* ComicBookAdaptation: this is how Orff makes his living.
* CreativeSterility: the reason why Orff decides to answer the ad about the thought-inducing machine.
* DependingOnTheWriter: highlighted. Particular characters change their attitude towards the main character very often, while Medusa, Eurydice, Vermeer's girl and Melanie seem to be more or less different aspects of one personality.
* DrivingQuestion: 'What the hell's going on??'
* FourthWallPsych: leads to MindScrew.
* GainaxEnding.
* UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}: with the flashes of AncientGreece.
* InvisibleToNormals: Orpheus' head.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* MeaningfulName: the surname of Orff and all the mythological sobriquets.
* {{Medusa}}.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: one of the possible explanations of the way the action proceeded after Orff's meeting with Istvan Fallok.
* MindScrew.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Orff is a wannabe-novelist and a professional comic book writer.
* OracularHead: Orpheus. [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Justified]] by the myth, where Orpheus was torn into pieces by Thracian women who felt offended by his refusal to make love with female sex after the loss of Eurydice, but his head kept singing while it was drifting along the river.
* PowersThatBe: hypothetically a part of the explanation.
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Boyfriend]]: Istvan Fallok to Luise von Himmelbett.
* RealityWarper: primarily Fallok, but possibly also Orff.
* ShoutOut: to Lovecraft, more than once.
* SurrealHorror: cabbages and toys changing into the talking head of Orpheus.
* SurrealHumor: cabbages and toys changing into the talking head of Orpheus, again.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: very subtly invoked. When the hero tries to make sense of everything which happens to him, he is forced to rely on regularities which are not usually observable in reality, and eventually, he acts as it was fairly normal that his life is governed by the 'narrative' laws (to give an example, every time he finds or is given something spherical, it changes into the head of Orpheus).
* TwiceToldTale: the point of the novel (well, one of them) seems to be that no story can be told only once.
* [[WomanScorned Women Scorned]]: Thracian women.
* YourMindMakesItReal: possible explanation of some events, especially those connected with the Orpheus' head.
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-->''At that moment the waiter appeared with our starters. I'd ordered grapefruit but I found on my plate the sliced-off top of the head of Orpheus. It was inverted like a bowl from which I was about to spoon up the brain.''
-->'''Excuse me,' I said to Kraken and the others. I quickly wrapped the half-head of Orpheus in a napkin and made for the stairs.''
-->'''Is everything all right, sir?' said our waiter as I almost knocked him down.''
-->'''It's perfectly lodza nurvurli,' I said, 'thank you.'' '
If [[TheChosenOne Neo]] had never found his way out of Film/TheMatrix, his life could have look similar to that of the protagonist of Russell Hoban's novel, which is a mix of PostModernism, MagicRealism, and [[ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], with some wordplay and a pinch of ScienceFiction. The result is very metafictional and full of dream logic, resulting in a total MindScrew.
The main character, Herman Orff, who has a slight obsession over [[GirlWithAPearlEarring one of Vermeer's paintings]] and in his free time chats with a non-existing entity calling itself Kraken, makes a living by adapting greatest literary works into comic books, but in the meantime unsuccessfully tries to write a novel. Desperately searching for ideas, he finds an ad which claims that the advertised company is able to help the writers suffering from creative drought. It turns out that the ad had been made by the former boyfriend of the former girlfriend of Orff, but it doesn't stop Orff from using the mysterious machine activating neurons in the new regions of the brain. After using the machine, he finds the Orpheus' head in the sewer, picks it up and listens to its story, in which Eurydice seems to strangely overlap with a woman whom he once had loved. The hero tries to work things out. Unsurprisingly, things only go stranger.
!!Exemplifies the following tropes:
* AllMythsAreTrue: not in the FantasyKitchenSink way, but rather as overlapping realities.
* AuthorAvatar: Herman Orff, who is a novelist (check), reworking mythological themes (check) by the means of popcultural devices (check).
* BatmanGambit: on the basis of events which would otherwise be unexplainable, Orff suspects that this is the case.
* BilingualBonus: expressions in classic Greek.
* ComicBookAdaptation: this is how Orff makes his living.
* CreativeSterility: the reason why Orff decides to answer the ad about the thought-inducing machine.
* DependingOnTheWriter: highlighted. Particular characters change their attitude towards the main character very often, while Medusa, Eurydice, Vermeer's girl and Melanie seem to be more or less different aspects of one personality.
* DrivingQuestion: 'What the hell's going on??'
* FourthWallPsych: leads to MindScrew.
* GainaxEnding.
* UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}: with the flashes of AncientGreece.
* InvisibleToNormals: Orpheus' head.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* MeaningfulName: the surname of Orff and all the mythological sobriquets.
* {{Medusa}}.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: one of the possible explanations of the way the action proceeded after Orff's meeting with Istvan Fallok.
* MindScrew.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Orff is a wannabe-novelist and a professional comic book writer.
* OracularHead: Orpheus. [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Justified]] by the myth, where Orpheus was torn into pieces by Thracian women who felt offended by his refusal to make love with female sex after the loss of Eurydice, but his head kept singing while it was drifting along the river.
* PowersThatBe: hypothetically a part of the explanation.
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Boyfriend]]: Istvan Fallok to Luise von Himmelbett.
* RealityWarper: primarily Fallok, but possibly also Orff.
* ShoutOut: to Lovecraft, more than once.
* SurrealHorror: cabbages and toys changing into the talking head of Orpheus.
* SurrealHumor: cabbages and toys changing into the talking head of Orpheus, again.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: very subtly invoked. When the hero tries to make sense of everything which happens to him, he is forced to rely on regularities which are not usually observable in reality, and eventually, he acts as it was fairly normal that his life is governed by the 'narrative' laws (to give an example, every time he finds or is given something spherical, it changes into the head of Orpheus).
* TwiceToldTale: the point of the novel (well, one of them) seems to be that no story can be told only once.
* [[WomanScorned Women Scorned]]: Thracian women.
* YourMindMakesItReal: possible explanation of some events, especially those connected with the Orpheus' head.
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