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* NamesTheSame: Private detective Philip Glass, to [[Music/PhilipGlass the American composer]]

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* MythologyGag: Artist Creator/HieronymusBosch gets name-dropped to compare the chaos of the outside world to the calm of Pierce's lab.



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the dial-up, DSL, land-line phones, pagers, and whatnot are just the above trope, but the Radio Shack reference at the climax pushes it over the top into this. Also the case with previous Connelly non-Bosch story ''Literature/VoidMoon''.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the dial-up, DSL, land-line phones, pagers, and whatnot are just the above trope, but the Radio Shack reference at the climax pushes it over the top into this. Also the case with previous Connelly non-Bosch story ''Literature/VoidMoon''.----
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by as early as 2005, the number of dial-up internet users had dropped below broadband users]].

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by as early as 2005, the number of dial-up internet users had dropped below broadband users]].users]].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the dial-up, DSL, land-line phones, pagers, and whatnot are just the above trope, but the Radio Shack reference at the climax pushes it over the top into this. Also the case with previous Connelly non-Bosch story ''Literature/VoidMoon''.
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* MythologyGag: Artist Creator/HieronymusBosch gets name-dropped to compare the chaos of the outside world to the calm of Pierce's lab.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by as early as 2005, dial-up internet access had dropped below broadband]].

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by as early as 2005, the number of dial-up internet access users had dropped below broadband]].broadband users]].
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by 2013, dial-up internet access had dropped to 3% of users]]

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by 2013, as early as 2005, dial-up internet access had dropped to 3% of users]]below broadband]].
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Subverted somewhat. High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet.internet. Later explained by the fact that while DSL was a higher-speed option, he was paranoid about using an always-on connection. Still, [[http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/08/26/home-broadband-2013/ by 2013, dial-up internet access had dropped to 3% of users]]
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* NamesTheSame: Private detective Philip Glass, to [[Music/PhilipGlass the American composer]]
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: TechnologyMarchesOn: High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: High-tech wizard Henry Pierce has voice-controlled lights in his office but uses dial-up internet.

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