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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament

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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament	comment	Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a 1981 epic World Fantasy Award-winning novel by John Crowley.It tells the multigenerational tale of an eccentric family and its compact with the world of fairies. A lengthy, bittersweet story of familial love, double-edged inheritances, and loss, the book is a celebrated touchstone of the modern-fantasy genre.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_10a9cdee	comment	Once Upon a Time: The 'last' words of the book. In this case, it's more like And the Adventure Continues.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Sophie is this. She's capable of lucid dreaming, Recursive Reality, Recurring Dreams, Dream Within a Dream and several other interesting Dream Tropes. These are enhanced by a mysterious fever which she causes in herself, in order to have even better dreams. She worries that it's hooking her like dope.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Smoky is only allowed to marry into the family if he comes to Edgewood on foot, all the way from the City. His wedding suit must also be old, and he can't pay for food or lodging, only make, find, or be gifted it.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Several, as befits a fairy tale.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At first, it seems as though Auberon becoming showrunner of a Soap Opera is just a subplot to explain how he makes a living. Later, his work on "A World Elsewhere" helps to reunite the people after Eigenblick's eternal winter, and keep the myth of Edgewood alive after its inhabitants relocate to the Feywild.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Ariel Hawksquill has put in place occult measures to make sure she will survive her physical death. Unfortunately for her, that proves to involve being permanently transformed into a stork.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: The stork who works for Mrs. Underhill believes she is a woman who was transformed into a stork for some offense and will eventually regain her human shape at the end of the Tale. However, when she receives Hawksquill's soul upon the wizard's murder, she realizes she was always a stork—being turned into a Soul Jar gave her human intelligence, and the resulting confusion convinced her she was born human.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: The sisters Drinkwater, Daily Alice and Sophie, both tower over the respective fathers of their children. Smoky's initial impression of the pair is "delicate giantesses."
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_38b58aa3	type	Leaf Boat
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_38b58aa3	comment	Leaf Boat: Sylvie fashions herself a wooden boat with a leaf for a sail.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_3b72e6f0	type	Cards of Power
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_3b72e6f0	comment	Cards of Power: Aunt Nora Cloud's mysterious Tarot deck, with its unique "Greater Trumps," are an infallible (though often ambiguous) guide to the future. Tellingly, they're most reliable when foretelling events in the lives of the Drinkwater family and their associates.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The family is brought back together in Faerie, but Smoky does not live to see it, Ariel is eternally trapped in a stork's body, and America will take generations to recover from Eigenblick's misrule.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Russell Eigenblick seems to come out of nowhere, and his powerful sponsors are too struck by his usefulness to question more deeply before cultivating him.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: To Smoky's story. Yes, he dies of a heart attack before he can see the faerie realm, but he didn't actually want to go there. It's possible he'd be OK with what he got instead.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Smoky, Alice, Sophie, George, Sylvie, Auberon, and possibly Sylvie's mother get caught up.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4966bf38	type	Perpetual Motion Machine
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4966bf38	comment	Perpetual Motion Machine: The orrery in Edgewood, which is powerful enough to power the entire house when necessary. This is because it's powered by the actual movement of the planets via sympathetic magic.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Smoky Barnable has grown up following his ne'er-do-well father from town to town, from one anonymous hotel to other. Having grown to young manhood, he is virtually a social blank slate at the beginning.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4bb0e7af	type	Mother Nature
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_4bb0e7af	comment	Mother Nature: Mrs. Underhill. Maybe. It's not clear whether she is one of The Fair Folk, or another entity altogether manipulating the fates of both human and faerie.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: Lilac sleeps for over ten years without aging.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_578a2681	type	Treacherous Spirit Chase
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_578a2681	comment	Treacherous Spirit Chase: Auberon chases after Sylvie while each of them are in their own overlapping versions of the Wild Wood. She doesn't turn around when he calls her, because "Sylvie" isn't her name anymore.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Auberon is a variant of Oberon. Who he turns out to be. George Mouse is a city mouse. Smoky is evanescent and forgettable, dissipating from the memory like smoke. A Justified Trope, as it's a nickname, though his real name—Evan Barnable—is only used once. Sylvie is sylvan. She and her brother Bruno are also a Shout-Out to Lewis Carroll's lesser-known work. Ariel is destined to become the captive servant to a greater power. Almost everyone important to the Tale has a nature-themed first or last name (Violet, Sylvie, Mouse, Flower, etc).
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6dcc4ae6	type	Oh Look, More Rooms!
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6dcc4ae6	comment	Oh Look, More Rooms!: This is true of the Edgewood house. Due to the building's already-large size and complex layout, it takes a while for people to realise this, which helps with The Masquerade.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Faerie, which seems uniquely semi-accessible around the Edgewood mansion and its inhabitants. In the end, the surviving Drinkwater family becomes full residents.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The Tale must be told, and everybody has their part to play.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The further in you go, the bigger it gets." "In winter, summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed."
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "Do you believe in fairies?"
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Smoky's journey to Edgewood. People who don't come to the house the proper way — on foot, wearing an old suit, and without paying for food or lodging — tend to have problems later on.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: It's set in the 19...somethings. When Smoky is a young man it seems to be vaguely in the late '40s or the 1950s; when Auberon grows up it seems to be nebulously the 1970s or early 80s. Going by the math, it should then segue into the rest of the 80s, but when the book was published the rest of the 80s hadn't actually happened yet (the tone can be described as, more or less, "what if the 1970s just kept going?").
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_8296f61d	type	King in the Mountain
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_8296f61d	comment	King in the Mountain: The crusading Emperor Frederick Barbarossa has somehow been waiting centuries to return from death and rule over a new kingdom. Enter the mysterious Russell Eigenblick.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The little folk live in a world parallel with our own, but are only "little" from exterior perspectives.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_90c018ac	comment	Smoky is evanescent and forgettable, dissipating from the memory like smoke. A Justified Trope, as it's a nickname, though his real name—Evan Barnable—is only used once.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Eigenblick/Barbarossa. All he wants is to get his hands on the Drinkwater-Barnable clan's tarot cards. The moment he does, he's zapped right back to where he started, sleeping under a mountain and waiting for his time to come.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: August's trade (see below). It's not exactly mind control, but it effectively destroys any choice in romance for both the girls in question and August himself. In Marge Juniper's case it takes over her entire life. This eventually makes August so miserable he runs back to the fairies begging them to undo it and gets turned into a fish.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9bf3470e	comment	Santa Claus: The whole family engages in the traditional practice of writing their Santa lists and burning them in the fireplace. Santa is real and a bit chagrined by some of their wishes, not the material things but the intangible ones. Nonetheless, he tries.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: All over the place. For example, when Auberon meets Sylvie's family, the narrative notes she has so many nicknames that he often doesn't realize an amusing childhood story is about her. In the end it turns out the much-storied Oberon and Titania are him and Sylvie. There's also Auberon's two childhood obsessions, the Edgewood orrery and Frederick Barbarossa.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9ee0d3eb	type	Land of Faerie
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9ee0d3eb	comment	Land of Faerie: More of a dimension than a clear-cut kingdom, Faerie becomes bigger the deeper in one goes.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9fb41dce	type	The Weird Sisters
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_9fb41dce	comment	The Weird Sisters: Smoky and Daily Alice's three oldest children, Tacey, Lily, and Lucy, tend to speak like a single character that shares three separate voices. In the only scene that depicts them in any detail, they offer disconcertingly oracular advice to their little brother Auberon before he goes out into the world.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: To Harvey Cloud's story specifically. He was a brilliant engineer whose life's work was the Perpetual Motion Machine at the top of Edgewood. The day he was about to turn it on, he fell four stories from it and died, leaving nobody alive who knew how it worked.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_a73cfb7f	type	Animate Inanimate Object
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: It's hinted that the tarot cards possess some kind of intelligence.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: The Drinkwaters are the American version of a noble landlord family. They live in the biggest house, collect rents on the surrounding land, and feel a certain amount of noblesse oblige toward their tenants.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: August makes a deal in exchange for true love ... only to learn that the emotions the fairies will manipulate to bring this about are his own. Ariel casts a spell that will transfer her soul to a different host after her body dies. however, she fails to follow due diligence in ensuring the suitability (or species) of the body.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_b8b7a21a	comment	Fairy Tale Free-for-All: In this book, practically every incarnation and belief about fairies proves true, from Irish mythology to Shakespeare to Victorian spiritualism.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: August Drinkwater. After asking for power over women, he finds that what makes women attracted to him is him being attracted to them, and ends up sleeping with every girl of appropriate age in the towns surrounding Edgewood, leading to a great many illegitimate cousins.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: "A World Elsewhere." Also, John Storm Drinkwater's popular children's stories.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Ariel Hawksquill is a one-woman brain trust for a cabal of the country's most powerful men ... and a redoubtable wizard.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Little Nemo. Very early in their courtship, Alice writes to Smoky about finding a huge pile of old newspapers with "comic strips about a boy who dreams." She is clearly describing Little Nemo in Slumberland, although she never names it and says the author's name was Stone (Little Nemo was done by McKay).
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Sylvie is not always very happy about having a Destiny.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Sylvie's family has a wide array of nicknames for her, the most significant of which is Tita, as it eventually turns into Titania, as in, Queen of the Fairies.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Hawksquill believes that Eigenblick is the Hero of the Tale. She's wrong.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: After Sylvie's disappearance, young Auberon collapses into ruined, half-mad vagrancy.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Smoky himself, appropriately enough for a character whose defining trait is a lack of traits. The true main character is either his son Auberon, Auberon's girlfriend Sylvie, or possibly even Russel Eigenblick, who from the reader's perspective is actually the villain.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_dfa1ee91	comment	Changeling Tale: Sophie's baby Lilac is switched soon after birth, with a duplicate whose creepifying nature soon becomes clear.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The state of the Edgewood house parallels the condition of both the human and fairy worlds.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: Until Eigenblick's wintry despotism begins, the non-Faerie Earth of the novel is essentially our present-day world.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The fairies are not malicious, but their priorities are only mildly parallel to anything that humans are about. As in many traditional fairy tales, kidnapping, mind control, and destructive insistence on the letter of a deal fall well within their notions of "fair play."
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_ef878d58	comment	Court Mage: Ariel Hawksquill uses her unique arts of memory and divination to advise the "Noisy Bridge Rod and Gun Club," a group of the country's most powerful politicians and financiers.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f0f69743	type	Drugs Are Good
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f0f69743	comment	Drugs Are Good: George Mouse's huge crumbling old townhouse in (what used to be) New York used to be a Middle Eastern shopping center back in the 19th century. Hashish was not only legal, but candy shops used to sell bars of it for a nickel. George still has a basement full of old and by now extremely good stock.note If you live where pot is legal, you can make hash bars yourself. George also takes a drug called Pellucidar, probably a street drug like Ecstasy named after the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, which seems to be a mild stimulant enhancing perception, but has nasty after-effects.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Ariel realizes how badly she's messed up by hitching herself to Eigenblick, just in time to be gunned down by his guards. Fortunately (maybe) she gets a second chance at life in the body of a stork.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f6e99f40	type	Youngest Child Wins
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_f6e99f40	comment	Youngest Child Wins: Of Smoky and Alice's four children, baby brother Auberon gets by far the most focus.
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Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the very beginning of the book, Smoky's working as a clerk in the City, and notes that the computer can't tell which meaning of "St" to use, throwing up the Seventh Saint Bar and the Church of All Streets. Later, Auberon goes to the City, and it turns out the computer was actually right about the names.
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