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4th Jul: Tom follows a Romantic False Lead in the latest Echo Chamber.

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Tropes about tropes. It is easy to get this confused with a category for tropes that share some commonality or are tropes that are particularly universal. That's not what this is about. It is about how tropes come into existence, live, mutate, evolve, and die.

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