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My Uncle Oswald

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My Uncle Oswald	comment	My Uncle Oswald is a satirical softcore pornographic novel written by Roald Dahl (yes, that one) in 1979. It follows two short stories also starring the title character, "The Visitor" (1965) and "Bitch" (1974), both first published in Playboy.Narrated by Oswald's twenty-something nephew, who learns the story via his uncle's Secret Diary, the first part of the book takes place in 1912 and details the insatiable young Oswald Cornelius's globe-trotting adventures as he searches for the world's most powerful aphrodisiac (with a lot of digressions into his sexual escapades).The second part, set in The Roaring '20s, returns to a slightly older but no less randy Oswald, who plans to use his newly-acquired aphrodisiac to steal and sell the sperm of the greatest men of 1920s Europe, with the help of Arthur Woresley, a biology professor, and Yasmin Howcomely, a nymphomaniac secretary who is all too eager to help seduce a variety of famous figures—all in the name of Science, of course.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
My Uncle Oswald / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Oswald Cornelius, 'the connoisseur, the bon vivant, the collector of spiders, scorpions and walking-sticks, the lover of opera, the expert on Chinese porcelain, and without much doubt the greatest fornicator of all time.'
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My Uncle Oswald / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
My Uncle Oswald / int_1994ba0b	comment	Henri Biotte because of his discovery. His lab assistant Simone accidentally causes his death when she uses up nearly all the doses of the Bitch formula on herself and surprises him, and he has a heart attack in the following chaos.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
My Uncle Oswald / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: Our cheerfully criminal protagonists are out to steal the genetic material of every marketable public figure they can.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
My Uncle Oswald / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The story is presented as the diary of Oswald, left to his nephew and only seeing the light of day now because its contents were too explosive, etc.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
My Uncle Oswald / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Oswald especially in "The Visitor", almost to the point of being Terrified of Germs, often scrutinizing the cleanliness of his surroundings and the people around him.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
My Uncle Oswald / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: The effects of Bitch are studied in an experiment with Biotte's young female lab assistant being sprayed with the scent and having a young fit male boxer approach her, while Biotte and Oswald watch with noseplugs on, noting everything from the effective distance of the scent and the duration of time it affects the male test subject. Oswald calls Biotte a Dirty Old Man, and Biotte retorts that he's a scientist. The lab assistant herself willingly participates because it's for science, and eagerly asks for another dose when it's over.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
My Uncle Oswald / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: A Meta example of sorts. It is a much milder example than most, but it's hardly a coincidence that the only person who manages to totally foil - from the moral standpoint as well - our amoral protagonists in this novel by Anglo-Norwegian Roald Dahl is the King of Norway.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
My Uncle Oswald / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: While still a dirty young man for the majority of the novel, his nephew the narrator assures the reader that Uncle Oswald remains dirty well into old age.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
My Uncle Oswald / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: Yasmin Howcomely was selected as the third member of the team for exactly this reason.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
My Uncle Oswald / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: While staying at a rich Egyptian's house in "The Visitor", Oswald notices the man's beautiful wife and daughter. That night someone comes to his room in total darkness and sleeps with him. The morning after, he can't tell which one of them it was, then it's heavily implied that it was neither.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
My Uncle Oswald / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Henri Biotte because of his discovery. His lab assistant Simone accidentally causes his death when she uses up nearly all the doses of the Bitch formula on herself and surprises him, and he has a heart attack in the following chaos. Implied to be Oswald's fate after contracting an incurable disease. He lasts many years yet though, and it's implied that he blew his fortune trying to find a cure in vain, leaving only his diaries to the narrator.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
My Uncle Oswald / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Biotte dies before he can write down the formula of Bitch.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
My Uncle Oswald / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: "Bitch", set after the novel, has Oswald and a perfume-maker/olfactory scientist conspire to isolate and synthesize the mating-instinct pheromone, still active in dogs for instance (hence the title). but which humans have long since evolved past. As in dogs, females should in theory produce it and males should in theory be attracted by it, but evolution has made these biological functions respectively weak and dormant. The scientist, Henri Biotte, manages to do it and amplify the scent a thousandfold, enough for human males to be affected again, causing them to fall into a mindless mating frenzy with the nearest female. Oswald calls the scent "Bitch", they discuss ways to profit from the discovery and Biotte even exclaims that they could rule the world. When the formula is irretrievably lost and only one small dose remains, Oswald plans to humiliate the President of the United States with it during a public appearance, and rigs a flower bouquet to release the scent from a hidden capsule, intending it to be carried in the President's presence.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
My Uncle Oswald / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Invoked and played with. Technically it's the rapist who's being assaulted, since he didn't consent to being drugged into performing. However, the victim assumes he's acting on his own power and believes he's the one who committed rape upon Miss Howcomely, who of course not only expected this reaction, but has a grand old time herself. Since both parties ultimately enjoy the act, the matter of whether or not this counts as rape is glossed over in the text (although there are several moments when Oswald and Woresley rather jovially refer to it as rape).
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My Uncle Oswald / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
My Uncle Oswald / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Used frequently for comic effect, particularly with Freud's (see example above) and Einstein's German-tinged English.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
My Uncle Oswald / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: The Bitch formula causes this, with the male test subject ignoring orders to stop made at gunpoint, and even warning shots.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
My Uncle Oswald / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: The Blister Beetle unleashes All Men Are Perverts and All Women Are Lustful alike, for comedic purposes. The rape element is downplayed in that the unconsenting party here is actually the rapist.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
My Uncle Oswald / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After Oswald's host for the night escorts him away, the former reveals before he drives off that he has another daughter living separately on another floor of his house. This is because she has leprosy, the kind that's almost impossible to cure. But he tells Oswald not to worry because it's only spread by the most intimate contact.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
My Uncle Oswald / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Oswald. His nephew says the real Casanova was a monk in comparison.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
My Uncle Oswald / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The effort to drug and swindle Pablo Picasso fails because Yasmin doesn't get a chance to pull out the drugged chocolate, the 'autograph' paper or the condom - he ravishes Yasmin the second he sees her.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_72595768	type	Darwinist Desire
My Uncle Oswald / int_72595768	comment	Darwinist Desire: Oswald collects the sperm of geniuses in order to sell it to women who want to have genius babies. Woresley, the scientist of the team, points out that it's really the sperm of the genius's father that would be a desirable item, but Oswald points out that (a) By the time a man is recognized as a genius in his own lifetime, his father is usually deceased, and (b) This is marketing, not eugenics.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
My Uncle Oswald / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Yasmin had a real scare while adding Albert Einstein to the collection: he immediately connected his sudden randiness to her little gift of chocolate. Luckily he didn't know enough to deduce her motive.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
My Uncle Oswald / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Yasmin is brought into the scheme solely because she fits this Trope.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
My Uncle Oswald / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Oswald's crew, who (almost) scandalized every male celebrity and crowned head in Europe and collected their sperm. Though, he gives himself no credit in most cases - it's his field agent Yasmin who shakes up a number of relationships.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
My Uncle Oswald / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A really subtle one, of the Absence of Evidence type: for all the pride and enthusiasm Oswald takes in his scheme of selling the semen of a great deal of famous men for impregnation of the willing women, he only ever mentions in his memoirs the fourteen "children" of Proust. That's because he simply doesn't know what exactly became of all the other men's straws of semen, as Yasmin and Worseley swindled him of them by the end of the story, leaving only Proust's sperm behind.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
My Uncle Oswald / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The Oswald stories were written in Anachronic Order and presented as the narrator selecting specific episodes from his uncle's multi-volume diary. The novel thus contains references to details established in the previous two stories, the events of which have yet to happen.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_9e80f156	type	Unfortunate Item Swap
My Uncle Oswald / int_9e80f156	comment	Unfortunate Item Swap: Yasmin seducing men by feeding them an aphrodisiac-filled chocolate truffle, while eating a perfectly normal truffle herself? That has to go wrong at some point, and when she gets to the King of Norway, it does.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
My Uncle Oswald / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: After the effect of the Bitch scent wears off, the males affected don't remember what they did, including ripping their clothes off.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
My Uncle Oswald / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Yasmin has to dress up as a man to get the donation from Proust.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
My Uncle Oswald / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Nine minutes after the victim swallows the beetle powder. Female victims have a corresponding response.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_c309f9d1	type	Science Marches On
My Uncle Oswald / int_c309f9d1	comment	Science Marches On: It is now known that leprosy is not an STD.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
My Uncle Oswald / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: On hearing Oswald's story about a lab rat that died from exhaustion after breeding with too many other rats, the Mexican ambassador comments that he too hopes to die from "too many women". The German ambassador immediately snarks "more likely too many donkeys and goats in Mexico."
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My Uncle Oswald / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
My Uncle Oswald / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: The second half of the book happens in this period.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
My Uncle Oswald / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Snozzberry" for penis.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
My Uncle Oswald / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Yasmin. Or rather, she's used this way by Oswald; not that she herself's not into it though.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
My Uncle Oswald / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Yasmin talks about having to hold onto George Bernard Shaw's "snozzberry" with all her might, and giving it a twist or two to keep him in line.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_eb24d076	type	Freud Was Right
My Uncle Oswald / int_eb24d076	comment	Freud Was Right: Parodied in the most hilarious way.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
My Uncle Oswald / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Oswald is very easily distracted from his story by descriptions of the gourmet meals he has along the way.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_f6f24e4b	type	Disguised Horror Story
My Uncle Oswald / int_f6f24e4b	comment	Disguised Horror Story: "The Visitor", the first story written yet the last chronologically, becomes one due to its Wham Line.
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My Uncle Oswald / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: The framing device of "Bitch" has the narrator say that he's publishing this entry in defiance of his lawyer's advice because some well-known people involved in its events are still alive. This most likely refers to Biotte's assistant chemist Simone Gautier and the boxer Pierre Lacaille, though they're wholly fictional.
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