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An Elegy for the Still-living

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Like the demented cross between Alice in Wonderland and the works of Stephen King that it is, An Elegy for the Still-living can't quite settle between dream and nightmare.We open on an unnamed country store shrouded in fog. A man emerges. He walks with a limp and reveals nothing of his nature. He is Francis Church, and to call him the hero of this story would be missing the point. Soon a storm falls, and it destroys everything but him. Left alone in a wasteland of blank canvas, he begins to wander.It quickly becomes clear that Francis may not be entirely sane, and the world he travels through may exist only in his head. Characters appear from nowhere and carelessly move between philosophical debate and pun-making. For a while the story begins to fall into normal fantasy conventions, albeit twisting them into odd shapes. Then a man calling himself Robin Goodfellow tells a couple of jokes and pushes Francis off a cliff.Simultaneously an existential dialogue and a wacky fantasy adventure story, Elegy manages to deconstruct the hero's journey, perform a multilayered metafictional sleight of hand, and cut straight into the darkness at the heart of man.
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Forceful Kiss: Robin and Francis.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: Not that it stops them from showing up three pages later.
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The Philosopher
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The Philosopher: Half the cast falls into this at times. Francis seems especially prone to turning a normal chat into a philosophical debate.
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Defeat Means Friendship
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Defeat Means Friendship: Nemo invokes this trope and starts a fight with Francis when they first meet. Sure enough, the two quickly become inseparable.
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The Cynic
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The Cynic: Francis tends to take this role in conversations, though he's actually somehing of a romantic. He switches off with Robin sometimes.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Talking Animal: Roofus
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: Every time Robin tells a joke.
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Chekhov's Gun: The key to Francis's apartment is a minor example. The umbrella probably qualifies.
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World of Symbolism: If a passage isn't draped in three layers of allegory, symbolism and metaphor, something's wrong.
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Nightmare Fetishist
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Nightmare Fetishist: Francis, arguably.
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Plot Armor: The narrator states that he will not let Francis die until the end.
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Sophisticated as Hell: Occasionally.
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Ax-Crazy: Francis
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Depraved Bisexual: Francis fits the bill, although he is a much more developed character than most examples and arguably not a sociopath.
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Reincarnation Romance: Francis thinks he and Maria have one of these. Robin thinks he and Francis do.
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When It Rains, It Pours
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When It Rains, It Pours: The storm at the beginning.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Deep, deep on the cynical end.
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No Fourth Wall
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No Fourth Wall: Borderline case.
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Blatant Lies: Francis's conversation with the prisoner.
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: Invoked by name by the prisoner, referring to Galahad. Debatable whether or not it actually applies.
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The Wonderland
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The Wonderland: See Dream Land above.
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Postmodernism: Most notably, the author appears about halfway through, starts messing with all the characters, creates cities and destroys obstacles with the snap of his finger, and explains that he is a figment of Francis's imagination. Later, Francis finds the text of the novel and completely freaks out. He tries to behave differently from what the book says, but finds that he cannot.
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The Hero's Journey
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The Hero's Journey: Deconstructed. Despite going through all the major steps, Francis remains essentially unchanged. He is constantly motivated by his own fears and selfish desires and never truly redeems himself even when he Can't Refuse the Call Anymore.
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Dream Land: Begins halfway through the first chapter and stays until the end. Enviroments change in ways tied only the logic of emotions. Characters appear out of nowhere. Buildings talk, giraffes dance and no one bats an eye.
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Fisher Kingdom
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Fisher Kingdom: The entire story takes place in one of these, though it is most obvious in the second chapter. Francis creates a world from his own beliefs, and it in turn changes what he believes.
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Reincarnation
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Reincarnation: Robin claims that he and Francis are reincarnations of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and that they have died and been reborn countless times throughout the ages, possibly as other fictional characters who fall under some of the same archetypes.
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Flashback: Chapter 4 is centered around a whole bunch of these, basically telling Francis's life story.
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Cryptic Conversation: Robin loves these.
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Trickster Mentor: Robin. Arguably Jeremy.
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Sanity Slippage: Francis goes from a quiet loner to a raving lunatic trying to stab himself with an umbrella, most likely while hallucinating in the course of three chapters.
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From Beyond the Fourth Wall
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From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Constantly, during chapter 3.
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Viewers Are Geniuses: See World of Symbolism below.
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Philosophical Novel: See above.
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Author Avatar: Jeremy Reinertson appears about halfway through the book to retrieve Francis's umbrella and tell him a story.
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Dream People: The entire cast, arguably even including Francis.
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The Ferryman: Acheron himself appears...as the name of an ocean. The ocean then proceeds to follow this trope.
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The Reveal: Francis murdered his own family.
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Fisher King: The fisher king of Arthurian legend appears, though he is strangely warped and resembles a mirror image of Francis. Because he has gone mad, the land is rotting away.
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Arc Words: "Our Situation" and the variants thereof.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Francis gives one of these to himself near the end. He doesn't recover.
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Knight in Shining Armor
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Knight in Shining Armor: Discussed with Galahad. He appears to be one at first, but proves to be a bit of a coward.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The dragon.
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Trickster Archetype: Robin implies a couple times that he is the living personification of tricksters, clowns and fools.
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Eldritch Location: See Alien Geometries and Dream Land above.
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City with No Name: Done deliberately, with dreamlike effect.
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Alien Geometries:
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Love Triangle: Francis, Robin and Maria.
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Precision F-Strike: A few instances.
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Mind Screw: Big time.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: Jeremy interrupts Francis's adventure to tell him a story about a man who is kidnapped and forced to write a novel. The plot of that novel is also told, making this a story within a story within a story.
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Freudian Excuse: Francis's dad locked him in the Attic. Later, his father may have killed himself and his mother lost her mind.
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Comedic Sociopath: Robin acts sociopathic whenever he thinks it will be funny.
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Robin and Francis.
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The Unfettered: Francis, when he's at his craziest.
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Our Dragons Are Different: Our dragons our physical embodiments of time, death, darkness and entropy.
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Old Friend: Robin technically fits the trope, but he's less "wacky buddy" and more "insane lunatic clown."
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The city, the first time through, anyway.
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Gorn
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Gorn: The scene where a naked man and women meld bodies and then begin devouring each other.
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The Plan
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The Plan: Francis plays one on the prisoner during the game of truths.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: This may be the case, depending on your interpretation of the plot.
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Anthropomorphic Personification
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Anthropomorphic Personification: Robin implies that he is the physical embodiment of the Trickster Archetype. Masoch could be taken as an anthropomorphic personification of death.
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Dying Dream
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Dying Dream: The last chapter.
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Death Seeker: Francis
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