Hopscotch/YMMV

Book:

• Crowning Moment of Funny: Ceferino Piriz. An intellectual obsessed with listing proposes a new organization for the UN. The organization quickly goes from merely impractical to hilariously insane (proposing administration based on colors, as in all black people will deal with black minerals and keep black animals). Aided by Traveler's snark comments.
  • Also the Bridge Between Apartments incident.
• Epileptic Trees: Some theorize that "Maga" (magician in Spanish) is the last name of Lucía, hence the nickname.
• Freud Was Right: Gregorovius, another intellectual of the Club of the Serpent has serious mommy issues.
• Genius Bonus: If you get all of the references, you get a lollipop.
• Misaimed Fandom: After the book came out some young women in Argentina started imitating La Maga's way of thinking and living; never mind that the book is clear in how irresponsable she is and the horrible consequences.
• Moral Event Horizon: In the eyes of some readers, Horacio's response of disdain and indifference to baby Rocamadour's death is the point where it became clear just how much of a selfish asshole he really is.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible
• Tear Jerker: The letter written by the Magician to Rocamadour. Bonus points because in both suggested orders it appears directly after Rocamadour's death.
• The Woobie: Horacio, for all his faults.