To whomever added The Historian's Wizard of Oz as the page image: I love you.
I fail to understand how this is any different from Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory. Either it should be merged, deleted, or added to the Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions.
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I came here to say that I am just loving the HECK out of that Angelfood Cake reference. That's beautiful. Sums it up perfectly. Five shiny gold stars, A+, #1, Blue Ribbon, THANK YOU and good night.
This page might as well be renamed "I Failed English Class And I'm Bitter", because that's basically what it amounts to.
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I *passed* english class and I'm bitter. Hell, I *aced* english class, and to this day I can swear to you it was nothing but a pretentous waste of time as well as money. I can see when there's meaning in work, and I can see when there isn't; sadly, that's pretty much the one most important skill that modern so-called "english" classes neglect to teach! People need to get a take a chill pill, get a goddamn grip, and realize that the hot dog that Joe Schmuckatelli eats in Chapter 3 isn't a metaphor for his latent hostility toward homosexuality, his decline from social prosperity, OR his return to appreciation of down home honest american values; IT'S JUST FOOD!
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Later, you open it up and discover there's a preface. Might as well read that to get an idea of the context it was written, and so maybe enjoy it even more. You start reading, and naturally the preface begins by summarizing the plot... wait, why are you annoyed? You weren't planning on reading it for the story, were you?
that more a case of It Was His Sled. have we got any better example?
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I don't really see what you mean. The prefaces that the paragraph is referring to are almost always didactic literary criticism directly related to the work being discussed. It Was His Sled is a spoiler trope. The equivalent would be a Citizen Kane DVD starting up with a extended discussion about the sled before the movie actually starts.
See you in the discussion pages.
Why not be more accurate? Not only does it go into more detail than anybody really might wish to hear about the sled, you also find yourself (should you actually read the preface first) wondering if a) the person watched this work b) while not high and c) how he managed to get the broomstick so deeply lodged without puncturing an intestine. In that order.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rather anvilicious itself (What do you mean It's not didactic)
, started by Cliche on Apr 6th 2011 at 7:13:34 AM
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