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* ''[[The Historian]]'' by Elizabeth Kostova features several books that are blank except for a picture of a dragon in the middle. |
* ''[[The Historian]]'' by Elizabeth Kostova features several books that are blank except for a picture of a dragon in the middle. |
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* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''The Keeper'', the protagonist tries to restore a decayed journal, but a "word spider(?)" got into the word-restoring tupperware the book was in and caused the words to literally drip off the book, much to her horror. |
* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''The Keeper'', the protagonist tries to restore a decayed journal, but a "word spider(?)" got into the word-restoring tupperware the book was in and caused the words to literally drip off the book, much to her horror. |
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and |
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', Tom Riddle's diary is effectively blank until someone writes into it. After {{spoiler|Harry destroys it with the Basilisk venom, it goes blank for good, though not before ''bleeding ink.''}} |
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* Played with in the final trilogy of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. Richard finds a book that is supposedly a user manual for his unique and powerful form of magic, which has always worked entirely on instinct, as he has nobody around to teach him how to properly use it. Unfortunately, when he tries to read the book, it's blank, which at first he takes as being because he's lost his magic, as the series has previously established that magic books are charmed so that if you don't have magic, they appear blank. At the same time, the Chainfire spell has also been shown erasing other books, so the reader might attribute the blank pages to that instead. Eventually, however, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the book was meant to be blank, and represents the [[The Un-Reveal|final, unspoken Wizard's Rule.]]}} |
* Played with in the final trilogy of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. Richard finds a book that is supposedly a user manual for his unique and powerful form of magic, which has always worked entirely on instinct, as he has nobody around to teach him how to properly use it. Unfortunately, when he tries to read the book, it's blank, which at first he takes as being because he's lost his magic, as the series has previously established that magic books are charmed so that if you don't have magic, they appear blank. At the same time, the Chainfire spell has also been shown erasing other books, so the reader might attribute the blank pages to that instead. Eventually, however, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the book was meant to be blank, and represents the [[The Un-Reveal|final, unspoken Wizard's Rule.]]}} |
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* In the ''[[Animorphs]]'' [[Prequel]] ''The Andalite Chronicles,'' the Time Matrix creates a miniature universe based on the memories of Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three. Elfangor leafs through a book in Loren's faux bedroom and notes that it ends halfway through; he reasons Loren didn't finish the book's real-world counterpart, giving her mind nothing to fill in for the rest. |
* In the ''[[Animorphs]]'' [[Prequel]] ''The Andalite Chronicles,'' the Time Matrix creates a miniature universe based on the memories of Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three. Elfangor leafs through a book in Loren's faux bedroom and notes that it ends halfway through; he reasons Loren didn't finish the book's real-world counterpart, giving her mind nothing to fill in for the rest. |
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