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Ragle Gumm is a World War II veteran living with his sister, Margo, and her husband and son in an idyllic little town in TheFifties. He makes his living as a newspaper puzzle champion, and spends his ample free time relaxing, enjoying his modest fame amongst the locals, and flirting with his neighbor's pretty wife.
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Ragle Gumm is a World War II veteran living with his sister, Margo, and her husband and son in an idyllic little town in TheFifties.The50s. He makes his living as a newspaper puzzle champion, and spends his ample free time relaxing, enjoying his modest fame amongst the locals, and flirting with his neighbor's pretty wife.
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%% no, she's really just dumb * SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
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%% no, she's really just dumb * SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl: Junie.
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* BrokenMasquerade: It starts when various objects melt away in front of Ragle, leaving behind slips of paper describing them, and it gets more broken when he finds the phone book and magazines.
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* BrokenMasquerade: It starts crumbling when various objects melt away in front of Ragle, leaving behind slips of paper describing them, and it gets more broken when with their names, so he thinks he's having a mental breakdown. Then he finds the phone book and magazines.magazines, seemingly from a parallel reality (who is that Creator/MarilynMonroe the magazine sings praises of?). [[spoiler: Finally turns out it's a Fake World, with FakeMemories for part of the cast (Margo, Vic, Junie, but not Bill or the newspaper editor - they're in on it), created to keep Ragle working on the "puzzle".]]
* CivilWar: There's an unspecified war looming over the story. Turns out, [[spoiler: it's actually an on-going [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression Lunar Revolution]], and both sides want Ragle's predictive talents for themselves. He's chosen to go to the Moon, but Earth authorities have snatched him, brainwashed him and stuck him in a recreation of his childhood]].
* CivilWar: There's an unspecified war looming over the story. Turns out, [[spoiler: it's actually an on-going [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression Lunar Revolution]], and both sides want Ragle's predictive talents for themselves. He's chosen to go to the Moon, but Earth authorities have snatched him, brainwashed him and stuck him in a recreation of his childhood]].
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* AGlitchInTheMatrix: When Ragle keeps seeing random objects dissolve into slips of paper with their names on them.
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* AGlitchInTheMatrix: When Ragle keeps seeing random objects dissolve into slips of paper with their names on them.them. Vic also has that odd moment in the bathroom, where he tries to pull the cord to turn on the light, except there is no cord there.
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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The town is one, which Ragle entered of his own volition.]]
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler:The lunatics — colonists on the Moon.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town, which turns out to be [[spoiler:fake.]]
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler:The lunatics — colonists on the Moon.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town, which turns out to be [[spoiler:fake.]]
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%% not really, it's more complicated, and anyway, it's a physical set (probably...), no phlebotinum * LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The town is one, which Ragle entered of his own volition.]]
* {{NEET}}: Ragle is somewhat older than the usual for this trope, but he lives in his (married) sister's house, is unemployed and makes his living by playing a game [[spoiler: which is not really a game, making this a Subversion]]. He's having second thoughs about the aimlessness of his life, and gets more and more stressed with the game, as he feels pressurred to maintain the winning streak.
%% no, she's really just dumb * SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler:The lunatics— are colonists on the Moon.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town, which turns out to be[[spoiler:fake.[[spoiler:fake, created specifically for him, and surrounded by a somewhat postapocalyptic, and definitely war-torn world.]]
* {{NEET}}: Ragle is somewhat older than the usual for this trope, but he lives in his (married) sister's house, is unemployed and makes his living by playing a game [[spoiler: which is not really a game, making this a Subversion]]. He's having second thoughs about the aimlessness of his life, and gets more and more stressed with the game, as he feels pressurred to maintain the winning streak.
%% no, she's really just dumb * SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler:The lunatics
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town, which turns out to be
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* AnachronismStew: [[spoiler: Intentional. Ragle's town is mash-up of pleasant memories from his childhood, regardless of whether they're period-accurate.]]
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Every week, Ragle pours hours of work into solving the newspaper puzzle so that he can keep up his winning streak. [[spoiler: In actuality, he's figuring out where the Lunar colonists' next missile will strike.]]
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Every week, Ragle pours hours of work into solving the newspaper puzzle so that he can keep up his winning streak. [[spoiler: In actuality, he's figuring out where the Lunar colonists' next missile will strike.]]
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* AnachronismStew: [[spoiler: Intentional.[[spoiler:Intentional. Ragle's town is mash-up of pleasant memories from his childhood, regardless of whether they're period-accurate.]]
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Every week, Ragle pours hours of work into solving the newspaper puzzle so that he can keep up his winning streak.[[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In actuality, he's figuring out where the Lunar colonists' next missile will strike.]]
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Every week, Ragle pours hours of work into solving the newspaper puzzle so that he can keep up his winning streak.
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* ClosedCircle: [[spoiler: The town. It takes Ragle two tries and help from his brother-in-law to escape.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ragle goes to the bus station and the Bar-B-Q, he ends up standing in lines that never progress forward. He suspects this is being orchestrated on purpose to stall him. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler: The town was created and maintained by the military.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The town is one, which Ragle entered of his own volition.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ragle goes to the bus station and the Bar-B-Q, he ends up standing in lines that never progress forward. He suspects this is being orchestrated on purpose to stall him. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler: The town was created and maintained by the military.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The town is one, which Ragle entered of his own volition.]]
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* ClosedCircle: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The town. It takes Ragle two tries and help from his brother-in-law to escape.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ragle goes to the bus station and the Bar-B-Q, he ends up standing in lines that never progress forward. He suspects this is being orchestrated on purpose to stall him.[[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's right.]]
* GovernmentConspiracy:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The town was created and maintained by the military.]]
* LotusEaterMachine:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The town is one, which Ragle entered of his own volition.]]
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* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The lunatics — colonists on the Moon.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town, which turns out to be[[spoiler: fake.[[spoiler:fake.]]
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* [[spoiler:TrumanShowPlot: A TrumanShowPlot: [[spoiler:A prototypical example. Ragle isn't a reality tv star, but he's still living in a fake suburban town, being perpetually watched by the people who put him there, and he starts to catch on in much the same way that Truman did.]]
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Ragle Gumm is a World War II veteran living with his sister, Margo, and her husband and son in an idyllic little town in TheFifties. He makes his living as a newspaper puzzle champion, and spends his free time relaxing, enjoying his modest fame, and flirting with his neighbor's pretty wife.
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Ragle Gumm is a World War II veteran living with his sister, Margo, and her husband and son in an idyllic little town in TheFifties. He makes his living as a newspaper puzzle champion, and spends his ample free time relaxing, enjoying his modest fame, fame amongst the locals, and flirting with his neighbor's pretty wife.
Ragle tries to buy a snack from a soft-drink stand, but the stand dissolves into thin air leaving behind a slip of paper that reads "SOFT-DRINK STAND." He rides on a bus, but sees the bus reduced to a mere framework and all the passengers disappear except for him and the driver. He digs around in some muddy ruins and finds a phone book full of disconnected numbers and a magazine featuring some [[Creator/MarilynMonroe movie star]] he's never heard of. When his brother-in-law has an unnerving episode of déjà vu in the bathroom, Ragle starts to wonder if the problem is not in his own head, but in the world around him.
''TimeOutOfJoint'' is a typical [[MindScrew trip]] from PhilipKDick containing many of his trademarks: conspiracies, paranoia, science fiction, nuclear war, and a protagonist who can never be sure if what he's experiencing is real or not.
''TimeOutOfJoint'' is a typical [[MindScrew trip]] from PhilipKDick containing many of his trademarks: conspiracies, paranoia, science fiction, nuclear war, and a protagonist who can never be sure if what he's experiencing is real or not.
* BrokenMasquerade: It starts when various objects melt away in front of Ragle, leaving behind slips of paper describing them, and it gets more broken when he finds the phone book and magazines.
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ragle goes to the bus station and the Bar-B-Q, he ends up standing in lines that never progress forward. He suspects this is being orchestrated on purpose to stall him. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ragle goes to the bus station and the Bar-B-Q, he ends up standing in lines that never progress forward. He suspects this is being orchestrated on purpose to stall him. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
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* SettlingTheFrontier: [[spoiler: The lunatics — colonists on the Moon.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle'stown town, which turns out to be [[spoiler: fake.]]]]
* [[spoiler:TrumanShowPlot: A prototypical example. Ragle isn't a reality tv star, but he's still living in a fake suburban town, being perpetually watched by the people who put him there, and he starts to catch on in much the same way that Truman did.]]
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* [[spoiler:TrumanShowPlot: A prototypical example. Ragle isn't a reality tv star, but he's still living in a fake suburban town, being perpetually watched by the people who put him there, and he starts to catch on in much the same way that Truman did.]]
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Ragle Gumm is a World War II veteran living with his sister, Margo, and her husband and son in an idyllic little town in TheFifties. He makes his living as a newspaper puzzle champion, and spends his free time relaxing, enjoying his modest fame, and flirting with his neighbor's pretty wife.
Now if only he could stop hallucinating.
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!This novel provides examples of:
* AnachronismStew: [[spoiler: Intentional. Ragle's town is mash-up of pleasant memories from his childhood, regardless of whether they're period-accurate.]]
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town which turns out to be [[spoiler: fake.]]
Now if only he could stop hallucinating.
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!This novel provides examples of:
* AnachronismStew: [[spoiler: Intentional. Ragle's town is mash-up of pleasant memories from his childhood, regardless of whether they're period-accurate.]]
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Junie.
* StepfordSuburbia: Ragle's town which turns out to be [[spoiler: fake.]]