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== ''[[Discworld]]'' ==
* In ''[[Making Money]]'' Cosmo Lavish says Moist Von Lipwig is "a cheat and a liar, an embezzler, and [has] no dress sense whatsoever". Moist replies "[[I Take Offense to That Last One|I happen to think I dress rather snappily!]]"
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* In ''[[Interesting Times]]'', "Teach" Saveloy introduces Cohen the Barbarian thusly: "Doer of mighty deeds. Slayer of dragons. Ravager of cities. He once bought an apple." Though actually ''buying'' an apple instead of stealing it is quite an accomplishment for a member of the Silver Horde.
* ''[[Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'' describes the influence of [[The Power of Rock|Music With Rocks In It]] thusly: "It made you want to kick down walls and ascend the sky on steps of fire. It made you want to pull all the switches and throw all the levers and stick your fingers in the electric socket of the Universe to see what happened next. It made you want to [[Emo Teen|paint your bedroom wall black and cover it with posters]]."
== ''[[Harry Potter]]'' ==
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** And he thinks that last one is his greatest achievement ( {{spoiler|it actually is}}), which of course makes Harry's detention in that book all the funnier. "Thought you'd make an entrance, didn't you? Well, it's not quite the Most Charming Smile Award, but it's a start, Harry, it's a start!"▼
== ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' ==
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* Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun (1952). “No man, however highly civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn-singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. It would be interesting to take a group of the most eminent philosophers from the universities, shut them up in a hot room with Moroccan dervishes or Haitian voodooists, and measure, with a stop watch, the strength of their psychological resistance to the effects of rhythmic sound. Would the Logical Positivists be able to hold out longer than the Subjective Idealists? Would the Marxists prove tougher than the Thomists or the Vedantists? What a fascinating, what a fruitful field for experiment! Meanwhile, all we can safely predict is that, if exposed long enough to the tom-toms and the singing, every one of our philosophers would end up by capering and howling with the savages.” (p. 321) of the Penguin 1975 reprint
* ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here'' describes the years between 1963 and 1968 as "A Long String of Bummers," starting with President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s assassination, followed by the election of goofy-looking President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], the Vietnam War and its associated controversies, more assassinations and riots, and ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' being canceled. The same book describes [[The Great Depression]] as "an era of unemployment, poverty, social turmoil, despair, and--worst of all--Shirley Temple movies."
▲* ''[[Harry Potter]]'''s Gilderoy Lockhart: "Order of Merlin Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League and Five-Time Winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award."
▲** And he thinks that last one is his greatest achievement ( {{spoiler|it actually is}}), which of course makes Harry's detention in that book all the funnier. "Thought you'd make an entrance, didn't you? Well, it's not quite the Most Charming Smile Award, but it's a start, Harry, it's a start!"
▲** A variation from the same series: during the Ministry's smear campaign against Dumbledore in ''Order of the Phoenix'', he joked that he didn't care that they strip him of all his awards and honors, unless they ''take away his Chocolate Frog Card''.
▲*** And, of course, there's Dumbledore's full name: Albus Percival Wulfric ''Brian'' Dumbledore. Michael Gambon places a slight emphasis on the "Brian" when reciting the character's name in [[Harry Potter (film)|the film]] by way of [[Lampshade Hanging]].
▲** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] believes that Aurors are part of the "Rotfang Conspiracy" and try to bring down the Ministry of Magic by using "[[Noodle Implements|a combination of Dark Magic and gum disease]]".
▲** At the beginning of ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', there's a nice example of an inversion: "Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of the year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework, but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard."
▲** Another example comes from ''Order of the Phoenix'' on a sign at St. Mungo's Hospital. The Plant and Potion Poisoning department deals with "Rashes, Regurgitation, Uncontrollable Giggling, Etc."
* In ''Zen and the Art of Faking It'' San is trying to figure out where mysterious yin-yang posters all around school came from: "Maybe his English teacher had put them up to go along with their reading on Daoism. Maybe somebody in another class had put them up as part of a project. Maybe a race of alien beings had sent them as a message of brother hood to all earthlings."
* As Dionysus says in ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'': "The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never get a perfect score on this stupid machine."
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