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* DeathByCameo: Adam finds the corpse of Shiel's friend, the poet Arthur Machen, who was trying to complete his last poem when the cloud reached him. Adam thinks about how noble it was for him to keep writing even though no one except God would read his work.
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* DeathByCameo: Adam finds the corpse of Shiel's friend, the poet Arthur Machen, friend Creator/ArthurMachen, who was trying to complete his last poem when the cloud reached him. Adam thinks about how noble it was for him to keep writing even though no one except God would read his work.
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* GodivaHair: [[spoiler:When Adam first meets Leda, she's naked, but her hair, which falls below her hips, is described as a 'garment to her nakedness'.]]
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Adam's years of solitude warp his mind so badly that [[spoiler:when he first sees Leda, his first instinct is to kill and eat her]].
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Adam's years of solitude warp his mind so badly that [[spoiler:when he first sees Leda, his first instinct is to kill and eat her]].
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* GodivaHair: [[spoiler:When Adam first meets Leda, she's naked, but her hair, which falls below her hips, is described as a 'garment to her nakedness'.]]
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Adam's years of solitude warp his mind so badly that [[spoiler:when he first sees Leda, his first instinct is to kill and eat her]].
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Adam's years of solitude warp his mind so badly that [[spoiler:when he first sees Leda, his first instinct is to kill and eat her]].
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* CrowdPanic: Adam learns from discarded newspapers that the cloud originated somewhere in the south Pacific and expanded north and west at a rate of about four miles per hour, giving millions of people months to try to escape. In Norway and England, the bodies of Europeans are outnumbered by dark-skinned people who travelled thousands of miles before the cloud caught up with them. Docks and train stations in particular are completely packed with bodies, some of whom were run over by trains trying to outrun the cloud. Adam also finds that some people tried to hide in blocked-off mines, only for panicked hordes to break down the barriers and let the cloud in.
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* CrowdPanic: Adam learns from discarded newspapers that the cloud originated somewhere in the south Pacific and expanded north and west at a rate of about four miles per hour, giving millions of people months to try to escape. In Norway and England, the bodies of Europeans are outnumbered by dark-skinned people foreigners who travelled thousands of miles before the cloud caught up with them. Docks and train stations in particular are completely packed with bodies, some of whom were run over by trains trying to outrun the cloud. Adam also finds that some people tried to hide in blocked-off mines, only for panicked hordes to break down the barriers and let the cloud in.
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* TheCameo: Adam finds the corpse of Shiel's friend, the poet Arthur Machen, who was trying to complete his last poem when the cloud reached him. Adam thinks about how noble it was for him to keep writing even though no one except God would read his work.
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* DeathByCameo: Adam finds the corpse of Shiel's friend, the poet Arthur Machen, who was trying to complete his last poem when the cloud reached him. Adam thinks about how noble it was for him to keep writing even though no one except God would read his work.
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* GrimUpNorth: During the expedition, the unbearable cold and the blank whiteness of the environment cause many of the crew members to fall into depression. It's especially bad during the polar night.
-->Ah me, none but those who have felt it could dream of one half the mental depression of that long Arctic night; how the soul takes on the hue of the world; and without and within is nothing but gloom, gloom, and the reign of the Power of Darkness.
-->Ah me, none but those who have felt it could dream of one half the mental depression of that long Arctic night; how the soul takes on the hue of the world; and without and within is nothing but gloom, gloom, and the reign of the Power of Darkness.
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* FemmeFatale: At the beginning of the book, Adam is engaged to a beautiful but wicked woman named Clodagh who is always '[[JustJokingJustification joking]]' about her admiration of Lucrezia Borgia and her desire to poison someone. Clodagh encourages Adam to agree to join the expedition to the North Pole so she can share in his glory. Adam agrees, but protests that the expedition already has a doctor, botanist, and meteorological assistant: Clodagh's nephew, [[RepetitiveName Peter Peters]]. Shortly afterwards, Peters mysteriously falls ill and dies, leaving an opening for Adam. During the voyage, Adam dreams of Clodagh giving Peters poisoned water. He [[CatapultNightmare jerks upright]] screaming 'Clodagh! Clodagh! ''Spare the man!'''
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* FemmeFatale: At the beginning of the book, Adam is engaged to a beautiful but wicked woman named Clodagh who is always '[[JustJokingJustification joking]]' about her admiration of Lucrezia Borgia and her desire to poison someone. Clodagh encourages Adam to agree to join the expedition to the North Pole so she can share in his wealth and glory. Adam agrees, but protests that the expedition already has a doctor, botanist, and meteorological assistant: Clodagh's nephew, [[RepetitiveName Peter Peters]]. Shortly afterwards, Peters mysteriously falls ill and dies, leaving an opening for Adam. During the voyage, Adam dreams of Clodagh giving Peters poisoned water. He [[CatapultNightmare jerks upright]] screaming 'Clodagh! Clodagh! ''Spare the man!'''
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* FemmeFatale: At the beginning of the book, Adam is engaged to a beautiful but wicked woman named Clodagh who is always '[[JustJokingJustification joking]]' about her admiration of Lucrezia Borgia and her desire to poison someone. Clodagh encourages Adam to agree to join the expedition to the North Pole so she can share in his glory. Adam agrees, but protests that the expedition already has a doctor, botanist, and meteorological assistant: Clodagh's nephew, [[RepetitiveName Peter Peters]]. Shortly afterwards, Peters mysteriously falls ill and dies, leaving an opening for Adam.
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* FemmeFatale: At the beginning of the book, Adam is engaged to a beautiful but wicked woman named Clodagh who is always '[[JustJokingJustification joking]]' about her admiration of Lucrezia Borgia and her desire to poison someone. Clodagh encourages Adam to agree to join the expedition to the North Pole so she can share in his glory. Adam agrees, but protests that the expedition already has a doctor, botanist, and meteorological assistant: Clodagh's nephew, [[RepetitiveName Peter Peters]]. Shortly afterwards, Peters mysteriously falls ill and dies, leaving an opening for Adam. During the voyage, Adam dreams of Clodagh giving Peters poisoned water. He [[CatapultNightmare jerks upright]] screaming 'Clodagh! Clodagh! ''Spare the man!'''
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* DwindlingParty: Adam sets out to the North Pole with a large crew. The plan is for the ship ''Boreal'' to get as close to the Pole as possible, and then for a small party to travel across the ice to the Pole. During their journey, Adam [[SelfOffense shoots a man who had dressed in a bear skin as a prank]]. Then another man challenges him to a DuelToTheDeath, which he wins. Then Adam leaves the ''Boreal'' with two other men, both of whom are killed by an upheaval in the ice. When Adam returns from the Pole to the ''Boreal'', he finds that the remaining crew members have been killed by the cloud.
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* CynicIdealistDuo: [[spoiler:Adam and Leda debate whether to restart the species. Adam doesn't want to because humans were bad, but Leda says that humans had good in them and that if she and Adam raised their children with enough to eat and no bad influences, they wouldn't turn to crime. At one point Adam reads Leda the poem 'The Prisoner of Chillon' as an example of man's inhumanity to man, but Leda points out that at the end of the poem good people set the protagonist free, and says, 'If those who set him flee were so good when all the lest were cluel, what would they have been at a time when all the lest were kind? They would have been just like Angels!']]
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* FirstTimeInTheSun: [[spoiler:Leda is the daughter of the Sultana, whose husband had her locked in a large cellar when she was heavily pregnant. After the cloud hit, anyone who could have released her was dead, so she gave birth to Leda in the cellar. A few years later, she died too. Leda spent most of her first twenty years alone in the cellar, eating dates and drinking white wine from the stores. She is finally freed when Adam decides to burn down Constantinople, which causes part of the cellar to collapse. Adam finds her wandering the nearby forest, entranced by everything she sees. At first she's a WildChild who NeverLearnedToTalk, but Adam teaches her to read, write, and wear clothes.]]
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* SpeechImpediment: [[spoiler:Even after Leda becomes fluent in English, she pronounces her Rs as Ls. At the end of the book, Adam wonders if their children will have the same impediment.]]
