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* LiteraryNecrophilia
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Lousy muscle memory.
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* ''Literature/MistressMashamsRepose'': Numbers with calendrical significance recur throughout the description of the manor and grounds (for example, the manor has 365 windows, 52 state bedrooms, and 12 company rooms).
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* ''Literature/MistressMashamsRepose'': NumerologicalMotif: Numbers with calendrical significance recur throughout the description of the manor and grounds (for example, the manor has 365 windows, 52 state bedrooms, and 12 company rooms).
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* NumerologicalMotif: Numbers with calendrical significance recur throughout the description of the manor and grounds (for example, the manor has 365 windows, 52 state bedrooms, and 12 company rooms).
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* NumerologicalMotif: ''Literature/MistressMashamsRepose'': Numbers with calendrical significance recur throughout the description of the manor and grounds (for example, the manor has 365 windows, 52 state bedrooms, and 12 company rooms).
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''Literature/{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by [[Creator/THWhite T. H. White, better White]], best known for writing ''Literature/{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The ''Literature/{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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whoops, forgot the renaming part of renaming :)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Maria's dialogue sometimes falls into this, being a bookish child without much social contact. For example, early in the book she thanks Cook for making her tea by saying:
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: MundaneMadeAwesome: Maria's dialogue sometimes falls into this, being a bookish child without much social contact. For example, early in the book she thanks Cook for making her tea by saying:
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trope renamed at TRS—borderline example, but I\'ll allow it
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Maria's dialogue sometimes falls into this, being a bookish child without much social contact. For example, early in the book she thanks Cook for making her tea by saying:
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood."
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood."
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Maria's dialogue sometimes falls into this, being a bookish child without much social contact. For example, early in the book she thanks Cook for making her tea by saying:
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood."
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood."
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-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood.
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-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood."
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* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Mrs. Noakes to the Professor.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Maria's dialogue sometimes falls into this, being a bookish child without much social contact. For example, early in the book she thanks Cook for making her tea by saying:
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood.
-->"Cook, if you are ever captured by pirates, or surrounded by Indians, or if you should fall into the sea and be chased by a shark, I will see to it that this day's work is not forgotten, if it costs me the last drop of my blood.
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* IllegalGuardian: The Vicar. Not only does he want to take the Lilliputians away (which could possibly be excused as merely looking after Maria's financial interests), he also
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* IllegalGuardian: The Vicar. Not only does he want to take the Lilliputians away (which could possibly be excused as merely looking after Maria's financial interests), he but he's also actively embezzling money from her estate and plotting to disinherit her.
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* IllegalGuardian: The Vicar. Not only does he want to take the Lilliputians away (which could possibly be excused as merely looking after Maria's financial interests), he also
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* {{Masquerade}}: The Lilliputians are the only fantastical element in the book, but the heroes end up constructing a miniature masquerade around them, as they don't believe they'd get a fair hearing if their story was made public.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or a human who's six inches tall? The Vicar and Mrs. Brown aren't willing to think of the Lilliputians as human, and the Lilliputians themselves are worried that the law would agree.
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* GeniusDitz: The Professor is quite good at medieval Latin as well as being the moral centerpiece of the book, but he epitomizes the AbsentmindedProfessor stereotype.
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* EccentricMentor / GeniusDitz: The Professor is quite good at medieval Latin as well as being the moral centerpiece of the book, but he epitomizes the AbsentmindedProfessor stereotype.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a lost tribe of Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''{{The Once and Future King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' but in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, the young orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a lost tribe colony of exiled Lilliputians while exploring its grounds. She then has to figure out how to stop her guardians from getting rich by selling them to circuses.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Lilliputians ride rats, as none of their horses made it out of Lilliput.
* {{Lilliputians}}: Naturally!
* {{Lilliputians}}: Naturally!
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* MouseWorld: The Lilliputians manage to live in one. They have some appropriately-scaled livestock, but mostly they improvise.
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* BigFancyHouse: Malplaquet Manor is certainly big, and it used to be fancy, but the family's been broke for the last few centuries so it's falling apart.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Maria.
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* NumerologicalMotif: Numbers with calendrical significance recur throughout the description of the manor and grounds (for example, the manor has 365 windows, 52 state bedrooms, and 12 company rooms).
* ThePlace: Mistress Masham's Repose is the small island that the Lilliputians live on.
* ThePlace: Mistress Masham's Repose is the small island that the Lilliputians live on.
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* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Mrs. Noakes to the Professor.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The book gives a reasonable if gloomy explanation for why nobody since Gulliver has discovered Lilliput (its society seems to have collapsed shortly after he left, and in any case).
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* CuckoolandersMinder: Mrs. Noakes to the Professor.
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* CuckoolandersMinder: CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Mrs. Noakes to the Professor.
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''The Once and Future King''. Set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' but several hundred years later, it focuses on Maria, a young girl who discovers a lost tribe of Lilliputians living on a pond in the middle of a sprawling English estate. She has to first learn how to
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''Mistress Masham's Repose'' is a children's novel by T. H. White, better known for writing ''The ''{{The Once and Future King''. Set King}}''. It is set in the same world as ''GulliversTravels'' but several hundred years later, it focuses on in the present day at the time of writing (1946). Maria, a the young girl who discovers orphan heiress to a sprawling English estate, runs across a lost tribe of Lilliputians living on a pond in the middle of a sprawling English estate. while exploring its grounds. She then has to first learn figure out how to
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: The Lilliputians speak this way, in a nod to their 18th-century origins
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: The Lilliputians speak English this way, in a nod to their 18th-century originsorigins (and because they haven't had much human contact since shortly after they came to England).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The book gives a reasonable if gloomy explanation for why nobody since Gulliver has discovered Lilliput (its society seems to have collapsed shortly after he left, and in any case).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The book gives a reasonable if gloomy explanation for why nobody since Gulliver has discovered Lilliput (its society seems to have collapsed shortly after he left, and in any case).
