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The Baroque Cycle

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The Baroque Cycle	comment	The Baroque Cycle is an epic by Neal Stephenson about the birth of the modern world set during The Cavalier Years, in the same universe as Cryptonomicon. Through the volumes Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World, the cycle follow the intertwining stories of natural philosopher Daniel Waterhouse FRS, vagabond 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, his soldier brother Bob and harem girl-cum-capitalist Eliza of Qwghlm, who's also the love of Jack's life. Spanning decades and the globe, the novels chart the rise and eventual triumph of the scientific method and modern capitalism. Collectively, the story might best be described as historical science-fiction with fantastic elements.Basically, it's the result of what happens when you take one part tall tale, one part science, one part modern history, one part alchemy, a dictionary, a dash of macroeconomics, and a whole lot of guts. Add Isaac Newton, cryptography, The Sun King, puritans, the Royal Society, capitalism, Blackbeard, illegitimate children, and Solomonic gold.The protagonists: Daniel Waterhouse: Science Hero and son of a Well-Intentioned Extremist, he's eschewed his father's extremist Puritanism in favor of an interest in natural philosophy. In his old age, he's The Professor, but is often seen as a Mad Scientist. "Half-Cocked" Jack Shaftoe: Action Hero, Lovable Rogue, and unwilling Celibate Hero ("Half-Cocked" has more than one meaning...) with a thirst for adventure who lives his life as one Indy Ploy after another and is an example of I Have Many Names, such as: 'Half-Cocked' Jack, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak, Quicksilver, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner. Eliza: An ex-slave rescued by Jack who soon discovers a talent for both finance and manipulation. Her brilliance, financial acumen, skill at espionage, penchant for planning and ability to manipulate people (including pretty much the entire French nobility) make her one hell of a Guile Hero. Bob Shaftoe: Jack's somewhat more level-headed brother and thus the Blue Oni to Jack's Red Oni. Spends much of the cycle trying to rescue a Distressed Damsel from a villain, working with Daniel and Eliza from time to time.Real Life natural philosophers featured heavily in the story: Isaac Newton: Cloud Cuckoolander extraordinaire and Ambiguously Gay freakish loner who happens to be one of the most brilliant people who have ever lived. Gottfried Leibniz: A German natural philosopher just a brilliant as Newton but without the personality flaws and with a very different worldview. Indeed, the book's main focus is the difference between Newton and Leibniz's worldviews. John Wilkins: The Professor who effectively founded the Royal Society. The Mentor to Daniel. Has an interest in how language can both obfuscate and clarify meaning. Robert Hooke: Deformed Omnidisciplinary Scientist and Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He's obsessed enough with his work that he can veer off into Morally Ambiguous Doctorate at times, but he's not completely amoral.Jack's Cabal, organized in The Confusion: Moseh de la Cruz: Spanish crypto-Jew and The Smart Guy who organized the Cabal and came up with their Plan. Badass Bookworm. Otto van Hoek: seaman who really hates pirates. Becomes The Captain when the Cabal gets their Cool Boat. Dappa: African linguist, Badass Bookworm, and just as much The Smart Guy as Moseh. Hates slavery just as much as Van Hoek hates pirates. Completely averts Scary Black Man, as he's one of the most calm, collected, and intellectual members of the Cabal. Jeronimo: Dashing Hispanic with Hollywood Tourette's. Gabriel Goto: Japanese Christian Rōnin who demonstrates Katanas Are Just Better. Born after his father was exiled from Japan and wants to go home for the first time in his life. As a Jesuit priest, he's also well-educated, and very much a Genius Bruiser. Vrej Esphahnian: Manipulative Bastard and old "friend" of Jack. Yevgeny the Raskolnik: The Big Guy. As The Big Guy he, of course, uses a hammer after he loses his arm at the battle of Khan el-Khalili it is replaced with a cannonball on an iron rod at on point and a massive flail at another pointAnd tying everyone together: Enoch Root, also known as Enoch the Red: Immortal alchemist and the only character from Cryptonomicon to personally appear in The Baroque Cycle. Straddles the line between Deus ex Machina and Deus Exit Machina: he often tips off the protagonists to vital information they couldn't have known otherwise (but he doesn't tell them too much), and he quickly makes himself scarce so the protagonists can act on that information by themselves.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
The Baroque Cycle / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: In Quicksilver, Eliza states that while in the harem, she had intimate relationships with other women since no other men were around.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Baroque Cycle / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: "Half-Cocked" Jack Shaftoe, "L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver." Jack's sons, Jimmy and Danny, also inherited this trait. Peter the Great also counts.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
The Baroque Cycle / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Charles White, Lord Bolingbroke's sadistic Dragon, has a nasty habit of biting Whigs' ears off. He keeps them to show off to his friends.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
The Baroque Cycle / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Johann von Hackleheber is a male example. At the age of five, he shoots a man attempting to harpoon his adopted father—in the eye—with a toy bow and arrow. Doing so saved his father's life. He only grew from there.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Baroque Cycle / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: The Earl of Upnor is said to be the most skilled swordsman in England. During a duel, he even manages to convey sarcasm through the movements of his sword.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
The Baroque Cycle / int_1b8cef9c	comment	The High Queen: Sophie of Hanover.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_1d3bc993	type	Mistaken for Special Guest
The Baroque Cycle / int_1d3bc993	comment	Mistaken for Special Guest: Jack Shaftoe, AKA "King of the Vagabonds," accidentally crashes a masquerade party that King Louis of France is expected to attend dressed as...King of the Vagabonds.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Baroque Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Louis XIV, William of Orange, Peter the Great, and the females of the House of Hanover. Notably, the King Charles II personally led a squad of firemen to deal with the Fire of London, and killed Daniel's father when he got in the way.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_21a446a7	type	Winter Royal Lady
The Baroque Cycle / int_21a446a7	comment	Winter Royal Lady: Much is made of the legacy of the original one; Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_227f74e1	type	Hollywood Tourette's
The Baroque Cycle / int_227f74e1	comment	Hollywood Tourette's: Jeronimo. There's even an amusing reference to the (fictional) St. Etienne de la Tourette.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Baroque Cycle / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Stephenson substituted some Real Life figures with these to make his story flow better: all members of Charles II's CABAL are these, Roger Comstock's life is almost identical to that of Charles Montagu (the narration even lampshades it by referring to Roger as "a Capulet or a Montague"), and in college, Daniel took the role of Isaac's Real Life roommate.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Baroque Cycle / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Various characters are examples for their descendants, who appear in Cryptonomicon. Daniel Waterhouse: The ancestor of Lawrence and Randy Waterhouse, he is an extremely intelligent technophile who makes contributions to the realm of computing, but lives in the shadow of his more brilliant friends Jack Shaftoe and his sons are irreverent badasses. Bob Shaftoe is a soldier. Both are the ancestors of Bobby and Amy Shaftoe. Gabriel Goto is a tough and level-headed side-character. He is the ancestor of the unflinching, level-headed Goto Dengo.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
The Baroque Cycle / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: Daniel Waterhouse and Isaac Newton, as well as Upnor, Monmouth, and Jeffreys, were all at Cambridge at the same time.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Baroque Cycle / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: When Bob gets himself in over his head, Teague asks him, "What d'you think y'are, a character in a friggin' novel, Bob?" He's accusing him of believing that he has Plot Armor.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Baroque Cycle / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Eliza thinks Jack's mispronunciation of the German word thaler as dollar is a stupid name for money. Enoch Root's friend thinks tea is too outlandish to ever catch on in England. Eliza's two banker friends thought the informal financial system used in Lyons will never work, the system is essentially the same as the modern credit-based economy. A variant: Moseh, espousing the Cabbalistic belief that gold and silver are formed by the sun's and moon's rays striking the Earth, expresses approval for the Spanish policy of establishing colonies along the equator, and confidently predicts that gold will never be found in, say, California or Alaska.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
The Baroque Cycle / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Roger dies rogering Newton's sexy niece.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_33cddf79	type	Penny Shaving
The Baroque Cycle / int_33cddf79	comment	Penny Shaving: The literal version is a running theme in the series, with buyers always dutifully inspecting the coinage they received and only accepting partial value on any that show excessive shaving or clipping. This ties into the plot importance of Newton, who personally cracked down on coin tampering.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Baroque Cycle / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Jack's daring escape in the finale, performed by deliberately subverting a Thanatos Gambit (see that trope's entry on this page for details). Vrej Esphahnian's plan for getting revenge on Jack involves much manipulation of several people just to get aboard the same ship, several years pretending to be loyal to Jack, and eventually taking advantage of Jack's love for Eliza to lure Minerva into a trap.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Baroque Cycle / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Daniel Waterhouse may or may not have precipitated the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Something happened in 1677, involving Daniel, fire, and some of Newton's papers. The incident is referred to several times before we find out just what did happen.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Baroque Cycle / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Used In-Universe when Bob Shaftoe notes how the greatest Master Swordsman of the era was defeated by an Irishmen with a log.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Baroque Cycle / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Lord Gy speaks in an almost impenetrable Scottish accent. Other characters insist that he's not actually speaking English. In the afterword, Stephenson assures anyone who might be offended by the accent that his ancestors are surely already spinning in their graves.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Baroque Cycle / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Edouard de Gex drops a massive one near the end after capturing Eliza, declaring that he despises money, considering it a form of pagan idolatry, and worse still, it enables commoners like her to ascend to the nobility. He describes his dream of a great auto-da-fé in which everyone he considers heretical — Protestants, Jews, capitalists, whatever — would be burned at the stake, with her, the "rich whore" who represents everything that in his view has gone wrong in the world, given pride of place among them.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Baroque Cycle / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Gets an interesting twist in Eliza's relationship with Bob. She references the trope, but notes that since Bob is healthy and level-headed, and Jack is a crazy syphilitic, Jack, the original love, is the one who looks more like a shadow.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Baroque Cycle / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Stevenson swaps out some of the real historical figures (King Charles II's CABAL, Newton's real Cambridge roommate John Wickins) and adds some mysterious personages (Enoch Root, Solomon Kohan). It also depicts Blackbeard as an active pirate, and the captain of Queen Anne's Revenge, in 1713. While the details of Edward Teach's early pirate career are sketchy, in real life he didn't become a pirate captain until 1716, and acquired the ship he rechristened Queen Anne's Revenge the following year. (Incidentally, this also means that he named the ship after a still-living monarch, rather than as a tribute to a deceased one as in real life.)
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The Baroque Cycle / int_59dbf1a1	type	King of Thieves
The Baroque Cycle / int_59dbf1a1	comment	King of Thieves: Jack Shaftoe is known as "King of the Vagabonds". Kottakkal is known as the Pirate Queen of Malabar (and is treated as an actual queen, as well as being, well, a pirate).
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The Baroque Cycle / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
The Baroque Cycle / int_5e7eb915	comment	In The Confusion, Enoch the Red provides an interesting twist on Clarke's Third Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo". Later Jack mentions that his "vagabond shoes are longing to stray".
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The Baroque Cycle / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
The Baroque Cycle / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: Jack for Eliza, since Eliza is literally the only person who is able to sexually satisfy Jack (it has to do with Jack's disability and the things Eliza learned from "books of India" while in slavery.)
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The Baroque Cycle / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Baroque Cycle / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: One of Jack's nicknames, "L'Emmerdeur note French for "he who covers everything in shit" - literally "the enshittener"," specifically references his tendency to be this.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
The Baroque Cycle / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: The fictional island of Qwghlm is presented as a backward place, with almost no resources except a lot of bird crap. The main livelihood of its residence is acting as Wreckers of English ships.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Baroque Cycle / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Édouard de Gex's alias, Edmund de Ath. Jeffreys' hired assassins, Bob Carver and Dick Gripp.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Baroque Cycle / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Wootz steel. Well, not the steel itself, but the furnaces to produce it. While in India, Enoch Root notes that while the steel-making industry is booming, all the furnaces are old and well beyond point of badly needed repairs. Which nobody seems to perform, just like building new forges.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Baroque Cycle / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Lothar, when he comes to feel affection for little Jean-Jacques/Johann.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Baroque Cycle / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: William of Orange is Genre Savvy enough to understand that the most competent people have the weirdest quirks. Thus, he goes out of his way to hire quirky people, and he distrusts those without quirks.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Baroque Cycle / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: As Jack is preparing to kill the duc d'Arcachon, he informs him that it is for a mother and daughter he abducted, disgraced, and sold into slavery. The Duc looks bewildered for a moment and asks: "Which ones?"
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The Baroque Cycle / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Baroque Cycle / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Seeing that his friends are in danger, Jeronimo launches a one-man cavalry charge on the Duc's musketeers. He gets shot through the chest, but goes right on fighting, loudly declaring that the sixty seconds he has left to live are time enough to kill a dozen of them, and has already taken out at least five by the time the others swarm him with bayonets.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_68f81ea8	type	Real-Person Fic
The Baroque Cycle / int_68f81ea8	comment	Real-Person Fic: About the Original Characters Jack, Eliza, and Daniel in the middle of the Baroque era.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Baroque Cycle / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Moseh de la Cruz, meaning "Moses of the Cross." Being a crypto-Jew in a hostile society, Moseh didn't mess about when choosing his gentile name; "Suffice it to say that the Iberian peninsula is a complicated place to be Jewish."
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The Baroque Cycle / int_6c00ba30	type	Musical Assassin
The Baroque Cycle / int_6c00ba30	comment	Musical Assassin: Sort off, Eliza finally kills de Gex (with some help from Handel) by tossing a cello across an orchestra pit and skewering him with the instrument's end pin.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
The Baroque Cycle / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Daniel Waterhouse for Isaac Newton, Gottfreid Leibniz, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Christiaan Huygens, Henry Oldenberg, et al. Waterhouse's Character Arc can be described as a journey to the point where he finally stops being the Watson and requires his own Watsons to explain things to.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_747e6b7f	type	Harmony Versus Discipline
The Baroque Cycle / int_747e6b7f	comment	Harmony Versus Discipline: Leibniz is Harmony, Newton is Discipline. The real reason why they hate each other.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
The Baroque Cycle / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Peter the Great. In reality he was extremely tall, but also very thin and prone to muscle spasms. In the series, he's a giant with immense strength who single-handedly duels and kills the enormous badass Yevgeny.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Baroque Cycle / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: With cannons.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Baroque Cycle / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Jack finds and beheads the man who sold Eliza and her mother into sexual slavery, and sends her his head on a silver platter. Literally.
The Baroque Cycle / int_7e6c0522	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_7e6c0522	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_7e6c0522
The Baroque Cycle / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Baroque Cycle / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: As per history, most of the nobility. Notably the German princesses Eleanor and Caroline.
The Baroque Cycle / int_80621707	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_80621707	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_80621707
The Baroque Cycle / int_83bc57c0	type	Slave Galley
The Baroque Cycle / int_83bc57c0	comment	Slave Galley: Monsieur Arlanc, and Jack, as well as everyone else in the Cabal served in one.
The Baroque Cycle / int_83bc57c0	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_83bc57c0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_83bc57c0
The Baroque Cycle / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Baroque Cycle / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jack and Bob.
The Baroque Cycle / int_8411ab92	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_8411ab92	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_8411ab92
The Baroque Cycle / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Baroque Cycle / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast with a distinct flavor of I Have Many Names
The Baroque Cycle / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_86b21114
The Baroque Cycle / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Baroque Cycle / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Daniel and Isaac. Maybe Édouard de Gex, but it's kept ambiguous, even against the man himself.
The Baroque Cycle / int_8967e17f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_8967e17f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_8967e17f
The Baroque Cycle / int_8c9e724c	type	Big Beautiful Woman
The Baroque Cycle / int_8c9e724c	comment	Big Beautiful Woman: Kottakkal, the Pirate Queen of Malabar. She's six feet tall, weighs 300 pounds (she's described as having a "marvelous round belly"), and is desired by just about every man she meets.
The Baroque Cycle / int_8c9e724c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_8c9e724c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_8c9e724c
The Baroque Cycle / int_8fe7f493	type	Ancestral Name
The Baroque Cycle / int_8fe7f493	comment	Ancestral Name: A prominent character in Cryptonomicon was Bobby Shaftoe, who had an uncle named Jack. Here, we meet their ancestor of two centuries earlier, Jack Shaftoe, and his brother Bob. Likewise, Randy Waterhouse's father Godfrey is revealed here to share the name of an ancestor, specifically the son of Daniel Waterhouse (who named him after Gottfried Leibniz).
The Baroque Cycle / int_8fe7f493	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_8fe7f493
The Baroque Cycle / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Baroque Cycle / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Bob suggests this as an epitaph for the Earl of Upnor: "finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman", which is exactly how he died.
The Baroque Cycle / int_90d44f44	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_90d44f44
The Baroque Cycle / int_95979921	type	Evil Jesuit
The Baroque Cycle / int_95979921	comment	Evil Jesuit: Édouard de Gex. However, him being a Jesuit is just coincidental with the fact that he's a scary religious fanatic. He joined the order simply because it was Closest Thing We Got to his own beliefs, leaving him disappointed at how "timid" other Jesuits are. And then there is of course Gabriel Gato, who, while being a Jesuit, is a walking saint, especially when compared with de Gex.
The Baroque Cycle / int_95979921	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_95979921
The Baroque Cycle / int_967856d8	type	Hired to Hunt Yourself
The Baroque Cycle / int_967856d8	comment	Hired to Hunt Yourself: Isaac, Daniel and their associates hire Sean Partry, the most famous of all living thief-takers, to help them track down Jack Shaftoe. As it turns out, Sean is Jack, having taken the time to set up this alternate identity against such an eventuality. This is actually foreshadowed earlier when Mr. Threader observes that thief-takers, by necessity, are all professional criminals themselves; it's the only way they can get anything done.
The Baroque Cycle / int_967856d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_967856d8
The Baroque Cycle / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Baroque Cycle / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette Eliza's incredibly baroque plan for getting revenge on Lothar.
The Baroque Cycle / int_987be393	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_987be393	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_987be393
The Baroque Cycle / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Baroque Cycle / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Peer, who so embodies this trope that his name isn't even given in the text.
The Baroque Cycle / int_9cc1a329	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_9cc1a329	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_9cc1a329
The Baroque Cycle / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Baroque Cycle / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Yevgeny is extremely tough and stoically endures even the most grievous injuries.
The Baroque Cycle / int_9d17b859	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_9d17b859	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_9d17b859
The Baroque Cycle / int_a12a5322	type	That Old-Time Prescription
The Baroque Cycle / int_a12a5322	comment	That Old-Time Prescription: Jack's syphilis is cured when he contracts English sweating sickness. Treating syphilis by inducing a high fever was a real medical practice that sometimes did work.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a12a5322	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_a12a5322	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a12a5322
The Baroque Cycle / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Baroque Cycle / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Both in-story and for the reader: Daniel inadvertenly walking in on Isaac experimenting by sticking a needle into his own eye socket. note While Daniel Waterhouse is entirely fictional, Isaac Newton really did put a blunted needle into his eye socket while at Cambridge, in order to manipulate his eye in an effort to better understand light.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a2b38d3b	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a2b38d3b
The Baroque Cycle / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Baroque Cycle / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title Quicksilver and The Confusion.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a4905771	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a4905771
The Baroque Cycle / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Baroque Cycle / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Jack, but not by choice - the nickname Half-Cocked refers both to his mental state and the result of an operation to cure venereal disease gone horribly wrong. Also Isaac Newton, as per history.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a5d92fce	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a5d92fce
The Baroque Cycle / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Baroque Cycle / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Jack's Janissary sword; it's made out of wootz, which is for all intents and purposes, unobtanium that exists in Real Life. He acquires it while saving Eliza and it stays with him through his many adventures.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a6275bef	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_a6275bef	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a6275bef
The Baroque Cycle / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Baroque Cycle / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Daniel Waterhouse pretends to be suffering from senile dementia in order to root out the spy in Sophie of Hanover's court.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a7aef9ff	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_a7aef9ff	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a7aef9ff
The Baroque Cycle / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
The Baroque Cycle / int_a80ad52c	comment	Jeffreys' hired assassins, Bob Carver and Dick Gripp.
The Baroque Cycle / int_a80ad52c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_a80ad52c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_a80ad52c
The Baroque Cycle / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
The Baroque Cycle / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs The recurrent image in the first novel is quicksilver, a constant ingredient used in science, alchemy and finance. Mercury symbolizes the fluid scientific and economic forces that ruled the Age of Enlightenment. The second novel adds the concept of the confusion (or con-fusion), the mixing and destruction of the old to create the new.
The Baroque Cycle / int_aa2cd0c9	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_aba0cd10	type	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
The Baroque Cycle / int_aba0cd10	comment	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Daniel is this to Isaac when they are students.
The Baroque Cycle / int_aba0cd10	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_aba0cd10
The Baroque Cycle / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Baroque Cycle / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The older Daniel gets, the snarkier he gets.
The Baroque Cycle / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_ae3d6438
The Baroque Cycle / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Baroque Cycle / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Vrej Esphahnian. Twice.
The Baroque Cycle / int_af3ea0e3	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_af3ea0e3
The Baroque Cycle / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Baroque Cycle / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Minerva.
The Baroque Cycle / int_bb01ad0e	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_bb01ad0e
The Baroque Cycle / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Baroque Cycle / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Fr. Gabriel Goto, SJ. A devout Jesuit and man so good with swordfighting, many people he faces would rather try to bribe him to join their side than face him in battle. Peter "Saturn" Hoxton, a big, burly brute of a man who happens to be a skilled clockmaker and bomb maker.
The Baroque Cycle / int_bbf11c0	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Baroque Cycle / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Eliza does not like slavery. It's enough to get her to attempt to kill Jack with a harpoon for getting involved with it.
The Baroque Cycle / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_bc74ef27
The Baroque Cycle / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Baroque Cycle / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Jack and Eliza
The Baroque Cycle / int_beb9a361	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_beb9a361
The Baroque Cycle / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Baroque Cycle / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: To an extent Eliza, although some of this is an Urban Legend Love Life as part of Obfuscating Stupidity
The Baroque Cycle / int_bf1255fa	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_bf1255fa
The Baroque Cycle / int_bf9ed416	type	Immortality
The Baroque Cycle / int_bf9ed416	comment	Immortality: The goal of the Alchemists, and apparent state of Enoch Root
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_bf9ed416
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Bonaventure Rossignol is a brilliant cryptanalyst who enjoys reading people's mail (encrypted or not) to find out if they're heading into danger just so he can run off to be a Big Damn Hero.
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3478f1d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3478f1d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_c3478f1d
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Daniel tells this to Hooke, who is insecure about being overshadowed by Newton. The distinction he makes between Hooke and Newton is similar to the distinction that Randy Waterhouse makes in Cryptonomicon between "dwarves" and "elves."
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3b51bb3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_c3b51bb3	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
The Baroque Cycle / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Dappa is this by trade, knowing various national and Common Tongues, so he could work as a translator in a slave-trading outpost. This comes handy for the Cabal. He also appears to be either naturally gifted with languages or having worked out an efficient system of learning new ones, as he picks another three along the events of the book.
The Baroque Cycle / int_c4942576	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_c4942576	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_c4942576
The Baroque Cycle / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Baroque Cycle / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out In The Confusion, Enoch the Red provides an interesting twist on Clarke's Third Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo". Later Jack mentions that his "vagabond shoes are longing to stray". The System of the World references two Monty Python jokes (involving The Spanish Inquisition and a shrubbery). There's also a brief mention of a book titled Python Explain'd, though knowing the author's pet subjects, that may well be a cheeky anachronistic reference to the programming language, which was in turn named after the comedy troupe.
The Baroque Cycle / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_c75df49a
The Baroque Cycle / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The Baroque Cycle / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Peter of Russia: effect underlined by the fact that he apparently surrounds himself with midgets.
The Baroque Cycle / int_c7f294da	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_c7f294da	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_c7f294da
The Baroque Cycle / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
The Baroque Cycle / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Enoch The Red mentions having acquired some copies of a book called Cryptonomicon. Waterhouse's young son describes it as "A very queer old book, dreadfully thick, and full of nonsense," noting that his father uses it as a Doorstopper.
The Baroque Cycle / int_c9597a03	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_c9597a03	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_c9597a03
The Baroque Cycle / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
The Baroque Cycle / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Three, actually: Daniel, Jack, and Eliza. And those are just the major ones...
The Baroque Cycle / int_ca7ec334	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_ca7ec334	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_ca7ec334
The Baroque Cycle / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Baroque Cycle / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander Hooke, anyone? Newton is off in his own world much of the time. Newton was this in real life. During his entire stint in Parliament, his only recorded words were a request to open a window. Subverted when Newton became Master of the Mint in the story and in real life; he singlehandedly wiped out counterfeiting in Britain and was awarded his knighthood for his services in this role rather than his contributions to science.
The Baroque Cycle / int_caa28b82	featureApplicability	-0.3
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_caa28b82
The Baroque Cycle / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Baroque Cycle / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Édouard de Gex is brought Back from the Dead. Maybe. Probably. The people that did this deliberately and intentionally keep it vague to de Gex himself, just to mess with his religious fanaticism and keep him paranoid about black magic being used on him.
The Baroque Cycle / int_cb70651c	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_cb70651c
The Baroque Cycle / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Baroque Cycle / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Quite a lot of people. Of course, when you're writing Historical Fiction, Historical Domain Characters have to die when they're supposed to.
The Baroque Cycle / int_cda501da	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_cda501da	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_cda501da
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0d90308	type	Bizarre Taste in Food
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0d90308	comment	Bizarre Taste in Food: The man who enslaved Eliza and her mother, Louis-François de Lavardac, duc d'Arcachon, subsists on a diet of rotten fish. Not fermented, rotten. One cook who nicked his hand whilst preparing the Duc's dinner suffered a fatal blood sepsis as a result. Given that the Lavardac family is noted as having strong relations with the Compangie Du Nord, this might be Stephenson depicting highly fermented fish like surstromming to people who have no idea what it is.
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0d90308	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_d0d90308
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0f63e83	type	Magnetic Hero
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0f63e83	comment	Magnetic Hero: Jack is one. It's outright stated in the books that the people that Jack finds himself around would in any other situation be leaders and good ones - as van Hoek shows. But they all look towards Jack to take action.
The Baroque Cycle / int_d0f63e83	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_d13eb235	type	Occidental Otaku
The Baroque Cycle / int_d13eb235	comment	Occidental Otaku: Inverted with father Gabriel Goto. He is Japanese, but born and rised in Manila in a family of religious refugees. Despite never being in Japan, he strictly adheres to what his parents drilled into him about local customs and culture, but in the same time he's an extremely devout Catholic, eager to go back to Japan and die for his religion. Given he's Goto Dengo ancestor, he must have survived and apparently ended up denouncing his faith.
The Baroque Cycle / int_d13eb235	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
The Baroque Cycle / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: The written language of Qwghlm employs runes. Transcribing words into letters makes them utterly unpronounceable because there are no vowels.
The Baroque Cycle / int_d5656fbe	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_d5656fbe	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_d5656fbe
The Baroque Cycle / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
The Baroque Cycle / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Captain Otto van Hoek, member of the Cabal and captain of Minerva. Yes, he has a Hook Hand.
The Baroque Cycle / int_d99d9918	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_d99d9918	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Baroque Cycle / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Subverted. Jack receives golden finery to bribe the executioner for a quick death. Instead, Jack distributes the riches to the crowd, pissing off the executioner and endearing him to the mob. When the executioner starts to hang Jack slowly as revenge, the mob storms the gallows and carries him to safety.
The Baroque Cycle / int_db71d717	featureApplicability	-0.3
The Baroque Cycle / int_db71d717	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle / int_ddc4aa51	type	Unobtanium
The Baroque Cycle / int_ddc4aa51	comment	Unobtanium: The Solomonic gold Jack ends up with possibly the known world's supply, some of which is used in a life potion brewed up by Root. Also, wootz steel which also involves Jack and Root
The Baroque Cycle / int_ddc4aa51	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_ddc4aa51	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_ddc4aa51
The Baroque Cycle / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
The Baroque Cycle / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: It seems that Stephenson can't go more than a dozen pages without making some reference to some form of feces, and just how many open sewers ran through 17th and 18th century European cities (especially London.)
The Baroque Cycle / int_dfc3e10a	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_dfc3e10a
The Baroque Cycle / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Baroque Cycle / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Jack loves these and whenever things starts to go down, he's already in the process of improvising a solution.
The Baroque Cycle / int_e35ab565	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_e35ab565	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_e35ab565
The Baroque Cycle / int_e4c95972	type	Innocent Bigot
The Baroque Cycle / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: Daniel's great-nephew Walter, aka "Peer", is apparently unable to comprehend that the African Dappa — a highly intelligent and well-educated man who can speak twelve languages — is an actual human being and not some sort of well-trained performing ape, to the point where he has a conversation with Dappa and still doesn't grasp that he is actually talking and not just parroting noises. There is no malice in his racism; he's just unbelievably stupid.
The Baroque Cycle / int_e4c95972	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_e4c95972	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_e4c95972
The Baroque Cycle / int_e6fa475c	type	Offered the Crown
The Baroque Cycle / int_e6fa475c	comment	Offered the Crown: Mr. Foot leaves the Cabal when the people of Queena-Kootah (which will later be known as Kinakuta) choose him to occupy their island's vacant throne, making him the first of the "White Sultans" mentioned in Cryptonomicon.
The Baroque Cycle / int_e6fa475c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_e6fa475c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_e6fa475c
The Baroque Cycle / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
The Baroque Cycle / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: The Cabal's Plan to steal the Viceroy of Vera Cruz's silver. The assault on the Tower of London.
The Baroque Cycle / int_e851b5	featureApplicability	1.0
The Baroque Cycle / int_e851b5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Baroque Cycle	hasFeature	The Baroque Cycle / int_e851b5
The Baroque Cycle / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Baroque Cycle / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Eliza and Fatio's rescue of William of Orange.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_f594c8a9	comment	Fed to the Beast: According to Eliza, Qwghlm once had a hereditary aristocracy, but in the 8th century the Scots sealed them in a cave with some bears.
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The Baroque Cycle / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Baroque Cycle / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Daniel discusses this trope when he notes that some people can easily be replaced by Suspiciously Similar Substitutes (e.g. Thomas More Anglesey replacing John Comstock), while others aren't so easily replaceable.
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