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The 13 Clocks

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The 13 Clocks	label	The 13 Clocks
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The 13 Clocks	comment	The 13 Clocks is a fantasy novel by James Thurber. A modern Fairy Tale, recounting the tale of the evil duke who thinks he killed time, in whose castle the 13 clocks never move, and the impossible tasks he sets to those who would marry his niece, the princess.Full of whimsy and word play. And containing the Golux — the only Golux in the world and not a mere device.Thurber also wrote three more tales in the same vein, Many Moons, The White Deer and The Wonderful O.The story is a favorite of Neil Gaiman, who wrote the introduction to the current edition and narrated a short animated film of the first chapter (which can be viewed here.)
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The 13 Clocks / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The 13 Clocks / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The Duke is evil and relishes it, saying that being wicked is only one of his little flaws.
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The 13 Clocks / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The 13 Clocks / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The Golux, in-universe. He's not even sure himself which of the stories he tells the Prince are true and which he made up.
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The 13 Clocks / int_1b75eaec	type	TheDevil
The 13 Clocks / int_1b75eaec	comment	This is the function of the Todal, an agent of The Devil who punishes evildoers for not doing enough evil. One stalks the Duke, causing him to be terrified of what will happen to him if he isn't villainous enough.
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The 13 Clocks / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
The 13 Clocks / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Find ten thousand jewels before ninety-nine hours are up.
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The 13 Clocks / int_203f069d	type	Tongue-Tied
The 13 Clocks / int_203f069d	comment	Tongue-Tied: When Saralinda first sees Xingu, she says "I wish him well." Turns out, the Duke hired a witch to put a curse on her so that the only words she can say in his presence are "I wish him well." Hark considers this bad taste.
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The 13 Clocks / int_25e18c14	type	Haunted Castle
The 13 Clocks / int_25e18c14	comment	Haunted Castle: The Duke's castle is haunted by at least three ghosts.
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The 13 Clocks / int_2d9e89f7	type	We Help the Helpless
The 13 Clocks / int_2d9e89f7	comment	We Help the Helpless:
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The 13 Clocks / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The 13 Clocks / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Hagga's tears turn into jewels. This doesn't work out quite as well as hoped. People have made Hagga cry so much, she's heard every possible sob story you could ever tell. Now she can only cry when she laughs, and those only last 14 days before turning to tears again.
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The 13 Clocks / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
The 13 Clocks / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: The Duke will slit you from your guggle to your zatch and feed you to his geese.
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The 13 Clocks / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
The 13 Clocks / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: The Duke wears an eyepatch over his blinded eye, and a monocle on his good eye.
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The 13 Clocks / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
The 13 Clocks / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Thurber is clearly having a lot of fun with his prose, and the narrator occasionally almost lapses into poetry:
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The 13 Clocks / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The 13 Clocks / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Hagga is granted the ability to weep jewels, the result is a depression in the value of gemstones.
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The 13 Clocks / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The 13 Clocks / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Literally, in that the last shot of the hero has him sailing away "to the shores of Ever After."
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The 13 Clocks / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
The 13 Clocks / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Xingu turns out to be Zorn of Zorna.
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The 13 Clocks / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The 13 Clocks / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Any minion who fails the Duke is fed to his geese. This is the function of the Todal, an agent of The Devil who punishes evildoers for not doing enough evil. One stalks the Duke, causing him to be terrified of what will happen to him if he isn't villainous enough.
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The 13 Clocks / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
The 13 Clocks / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Xingu must complete The Quest by making all thirteen clocks strike five.
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The 13 Clocks / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The 13 Clocks / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Duke has people killed and fed to his geese for the most minor transgressions, including not complimenting his wines or staring at his gloves for too long.
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The 13 Clocks / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
The 13 Clocks / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Just hearing the Todal's name mentioned causes people's hair to turn white with terror. Even Hark's black mask turns gray.
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The 13 Clocks / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The 13 Clocks / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: The Duke lost an eye from an unfortunate encounter with a bird in his youth, and wears an eyepatch to cover it.
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The 13 Clocks / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
The 13 Clocks / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: Xingu tries to protest that he should not be sent to do the fatal Engagement Challenge since he is not a prince. The Duke has seen through his disguise and realized that he is really Prince Zorn of Zorna.
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The 13 Clocks / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The 13 Clocks / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: The Duke imprisons his niece Saralanda in the tower. Subverted when it's revealed that he actually kidnapped Saralinda and plans to marry her himself.
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The 13 Clocks / int_7c1d92d7	type	Now Do It Again, Backwards
The 13 Clocks / int_7c1d92d7	comment	Now Do It Again, Backwards: The way Saralinda starts the clocks. The Golux's logic seems to work this way.
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The 13 Clocks / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
The 13 Clocks / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: The plot involves Xingu having to complete an impossible challenge for the hand of Saralinda. Many other princes have tried before, only to be slit from their guggle to their zatch and fed to the geese.
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The 13 Clocks / int_98f2361a	type	FairyTaleMotifs
The 13 Clocks / int_98f2361a	comment	Fairy Tale Motifs: An evil duke, a prince in disguise, an enchanted princess trapped in a tower, an Engagement Challenge, an inept wizard, a king, an Eldritch Abomination lurking around— we're just a fairy godmother or two away from a full Fairy Tale Free-for-All here.
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The 13 Clocks / int_9d73f176	type	Wandering Minstrel
The 13 Clocks / int_9d73f176	comment	Wandering Minstrel: Xingu, when we first meet him, is disguised as a traveling bard. He alludes to The Mikado several times, calling himself "a thing of threads and patches". This is also a hint that he's really royalty, just like the wandering minstrel who delivers that line in The Mikado.
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The 13 Clocks / int_af739531	type	Inept Mage
The 13 Clocks / int_af739531	comment	Inept Mage: The Golux's father, who lacks the power of concentration, and mother, who, "when she changed her rivals into fish, all she ever got was mermaids." The Golux keeps up the family tradition.
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The 13 Clocks / int_b77a6d82	type	Evil Is Deathly Cold
The 13 Clocks / int_b77a6d82	comment	Evil Is Deathly Cold: The Duke goes on and on about how cold his evil makes the castle, to the point where even Hark gets annoyed.
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The 13 Clocks / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
The 13 Clocks / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: From "guggle" to "zatch". Also "gleeping".
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The 13 Clocks / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The 13 Clocks / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Duke is only ever called The Duke.
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The 13 Clocks / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The 13 Clocks / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: A non-sexual variety. Even the hero wonders where his guggle and zatch are. Turns out, they're his throat and stomach, respectively.
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The 13 Clocks / int_e6c8cd60	type	Fed to Pigs
The 13 Clocks / int_e6c8cd60	comment	Fed to Pigs: Or, rather, geese. The Duke disposes of Saralinda's suitors by feeding them to geese after they fail his tasks.
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The 13 Clocks / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
The 13 Clocks / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Everybody, including the Lemony Narrator, slips spontaneously into rhyme in the course of any normal conversation.
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