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* An in-universe example occurs in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'': the 'moral' that the Tralfamordians derive from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] is ''before you kill anyone, make absolutely sure that they're not well-connected.''
* The book ''I Kissed Dating Goodbye'' is supposed to have the moral of "So many Christians are so desperate to get married that they forget about the most important thing, which is spirituality, and which includes serving others". However, to most readers, the message that came across was "do volunteer work as a substitute for being in a romantic relationship". Needless to say, it pissed off a lot of readers- and that is an ''understatement''. The name of the book cause some problems as well, since it wasn't really about "not dating at all", but "not casually trying for dates because you're desperate for affection while having no long-term purpose for the relationships". But the name tended to reinforce the alternative aesop, even/especially for [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|people who didn't read it.]]
* Considering [[H.P.HP Lovecraft (Creator)|H.P Lovecraft's]] general xenophobia and racism, it's likely he intended the final revelation in ''Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family''- {{spoiler|that one of the title character's great-great-great grandparents was some sort of pre-human 'ape-goddess'}}- to be legitimately horrifying enough to justify his fatal [[Heroic BSOD]]. Ninety-odd years later,[[ {{spoiler: |when what amounts to almost literally the [[http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/4247/my-great-great-great-grandfather<!-- E280%E2%80%99s-a-neanderthal exact same revelation]] about a huge swath of the current population is met with a profound 'meh' outside of the scientific community,]]}} the really disturbing thing about the story seems more to be how truly fragile poor Arthur's sense of proportion and grip on reality are. -->
 
 
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