This page lists tropes of literary work Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre) by Russian author Vitaly Ivolginsky, starting with the letter R.
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Warning: detailed listing and analysis of tropes may partially or completely reveal the plot or other nuances. In addition, their number may be supplemented from time to time.
Denial of responsibility: possible strange language constructs are caused by translation from the author’s native language into English.
List of tropes
- Room Full of Crazy: By genre standards, there’s nothing all that special about the room Galbraith rents at the “Stait of Snow Lake”, but given that there are no chairs, a bed infested with bugs, and a broken lock, it might as well be that.
- Running Gag: Galbraith walks around with a mustache because he just can’t shave – no matter how hard he tries, he always cuts the skin on his face.
- Religious Horror: As such, there is no horror in the work at all, but one of Galbraith’s nightmares mentions a dark room in which mister chief inspector Schaeymoure read him a strange speech about believing in a criminal, after which it turns out that all this time it was a wooden mannequin made by doctor Baselard.
- Related in the Adaptation: In the film, Delia had almost no contact with Jo’s character’s friend and the person who was investigating her. In “Always Visible”, she instead visits Japhet Byrnes, Jordan Thurlow’s friend and develops trust in Galbraith when she sees him for the first and last time.
- Riddle for the Ages: So what exactly was in Delia’s uterus? And why did Galbraith see visions? Is the first connected with the second, or was Galbraith simply on drugs (as he himself thinks in the first act)?
- Rube Goldberg Device: D.O.O.R. is a supercomputer into which scientists downloaded a lot of information just so that it could simulate a virtual personality inside itself. There is no benefit from this.