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The Lunatic
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The Lunatic is a novel by Jamaican author Anthony Winkler, published in 1987.Aloysius is the village madman in Moneague, St. Ann, tolerated by his neighbors but otherwise shunned because of his tendency to hold conversations with literally everything: rocks, trees, bushes, animals, etc. He lives in the bushland, where he often seeks shelter under the limbs of a friendly flame-heart tree, and scavenges for wild fruit to feed himself. Because he's a lunatic, he's shunned by the local women, and as a result hasn't had any sex in two years. He also claims to have a thousand names, which he'll spout off if you ask him his name.Then one day, he meets Inga Schmidt, a German tourist who's out snapping photos of the local flora and fauna. Their meeting is very unexpected: she finds him asleep with his, er, flag-pole flying high, and takes photos of it.Inga, it turns out, is sex-crazy. Hilarity Ensues. Then she brings in a second local man, a butcher named Service, to satisfy herself. Even MORE hilarity ensues, leading to the three concocting a plan to burgle the house of the local landowner.The novel spawned a film in 1991, starring Paul Campbell and Carl Bradshaw as Aloysius and Service, respectively. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Inga proves herself to be this, training Aloysius and Service to burgle houses in little time, and supplying gloves for them to hide fingerprints and wrapping their feet to prevent leaving footprints, in preparation to rob Busha's house. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Of the True Companions, Service believes himself to be this. | |
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Cardboard Prison | |
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Cardboard Prison: Inga escapes from the jail where she’s held for her part in the robbery of Busha’s house. The movie outright shows that her father's connections are responsible. | |
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Heel–Faith Turn | |
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Heel–Faith Turn: Service eventually finds religion while in prison, having believed in no God and being very kill-happy before that point. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Being German, Inga pronounces her W’s like V’s. Aloysius later starts copying her unconsciously. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Aloysius experienced this, being raised only by his aunt. For him, it's a source of sorrowful wishing. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Several characters in the novel are excised from the movie, including Busha's circle of friends, the village shopkeeper Mr. Shubert, and the schoolboys who invoke Inga's wrath. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Aloysius and Service both get this. Service's is especially noteworthy, as he goes from being a Flat-Earth Atheist and Blood Knight to The Atoner. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Nobody ever finds out just what Inga did to that poor kid, though we can be very certain Attempted Rape is involved somehow. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Mr. Shubert, the village shopkeeper and church sexton, gets yelled at by Busha for not keeping the local cows out of the cemetery. In turn, Mr. Shubert takes out his frustration on his shop assistant, who had nothing to do with that earlier scolding, before ordering him to run the cows out of the graveyard. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Aloysius suffers all sorts of mishaps throughout the story. Service gets his fair share of this trope as well, mostly at Inga's hands. Busha also suffers his fair share of misfortunes, some comical and others not. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Hubert "Busha" Macintosh, the local landowner, has one. So does Barrister Lingstrom. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: During her first sexual escapade with Aloysius, Inga beats him up for...being too quick. She does the same thing to Service later, for the same reason. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "I kill me father. You kill your father too?" | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: Service at the end of the novel. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Whatever Inga did to the boy who called her an insulting name. However, it is potent enough that his cronies never call her any nicknames again. | |
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Visual Innuendo | |
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Visual Innuendo: In the film version, when Busha's wife Sarah openly wonders why any woman like Inga would want a lunatic like Aloysius, Busha pointedly holds up a large boiled banana on his fork. Sarah immediately gets the message and is thoroughly disgusted. (In the book, there's no visual illustration, with Busha instead delicately paraphrasing what Inga has said about Aloysius's penis, but Sarah is still put off.) | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Inga claims this about Aloysius. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: The schoolchildren mock Aloysius for his madness, and a group of schoolboys take it upon themselves to point out other people's physical deformities and oddities. Inga retaliates against one of them in what later becomes a Noodle Incident. | |
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Self-Made Orphan | |
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Self-Made Orphan: Service murdered his own father. | |
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Extreme Omnisexual | |
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Extreme Omnisexual: Inga has a voracious sexual appetite outright saying that she must have at least two lovers to get satisfaction. She even says at one point that she could have a donkey in her room if she wanted to, leading Aloysius to rightly wonder what she would want to do with the poor beast under such circumstances. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: Did we mention that Aloysius has a thousand names? | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Inga is very unforgiving to her lovers if they perform poorly, especially if they finish before she does. The first this manifests is when, twice in a row, she explodes at Aloysius for not being able to control his climax. She later boxes Service on the ear for likewise being too quick. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Rule of Funny: A lot of what happens in the book is Played for Laughs. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Service. A lot of the animals and vegetation that Aloysius hears talking serve in this capacity as well. | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: Service is a little too eager to use his knives and machete to settle conflicts. It doesn’t help that his profession is that of a butcher, or that he derives amusement from beheading chickens and then watching the headless corpses run around blindly. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Inga's mouth is among the dirtiest in the whole story. As just one example: | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Oh, geez, does Inga hate it if her partner finishes before she does. The first one we see is when, twice in a row, she explodes at Aloysius for not being able to control his climax. She later boxes Service on the ear for likewise being too quick. | |
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SmiteMeOhMightySmiter | |
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Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Service challenges God to strike him down if he's lying about killing his father as Inga claims he is. God doesn't oblige. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Busha Macintosh and his wife Sarah. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Of a rather weird sort: Aloysius, Inga, Service, and the flame-heart tree that has always been Aloysius's companion. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: At one point in the book, when Inga takes Aloysius to her hotel for a tryst, she claims that she can take anything and anyone she wants into her room, even a donkey. Aloysius immediately starts wondering why Inga would want a donkey for a guest and what exactly she would be planning to do with the animal (and given her propensity for sex, one can hardly blame him for wondering). | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: A group of schoolboys in the village make a practice of shouting nicknames at passersby based on their physical attributes or know character traits, such as "Crook Foot," "Peel-Head Parson," and "Big Batty Woman" (for a woman with a large butt). Not even Busha escapes this, as they call him "Big Belly Busha" whenever he drives past. At one point they call Inga "Two Hood Woman" (because she's known to have two lovers, Aloysius and Service)...but when she responds violently and does something to one of the boys that involves tearing his clothes off, they never call her any names again. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The film version hints pretty strongly that Inga may have one for her behavior, given how she calls her father out for not showing her enough love and care when she's in the courtroom. The possible excuse is less pronounced and public in the book, though she clearly doesn't get along very well with her father there either. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist: Service claims that there is no God, no heaven, no hell, no coming back from death, no reincarnation...for him, everything is mud. He improves his viewpoint much later. | |
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Immodest Orgasm: “O-iso-propoxy-phenyl!” | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: Go ahead and ask Aloysius his name. We'll wait. | |
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Dark Action Girl | |
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Dark Action Girl: Inga knows her kung fu. She’s actually strong enough to break off a tree limb with her bare hand. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: The mother of the boy Inga assaults swears an oath that she'll kill the white woman before sundown. Thanks to Aloysius's intervention, it doesn't happen. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Inga does this to her father in the movie adaptation. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: "Aloysius Gossamer Longshoreman Technocracy Predominate Involuted Enraptured Parliamentarian Patriarch Verdure..." And that's only a mere handful of his thousand names. | |
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