Department of Redundancy Department/Literature: Difference between revisions

** The most famous Fanthorpian example is probably [http://www.peltorro.com/motrtxt.htm Chapter 5] of ''March of the Robots'', which, when all the redundancy has been removed, just says "A saucer-shaped ship landed silently, while the people were still asleep. Mysterious robots marched out of it, and a force-field appeared around it."

{{quote| "Metal things. Metal things that could think. Thinking metal things."}}

{{quote| She could tell the real man in front of her wanted her, because he told her so. "I want you," he whispered.}}

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', a tourist misreads his Agatean-to-Morporkian translation guide, leading to such statements as:

* A dead serious variant from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]: A Game Of Thrones'':

{{quote| All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. ''Swift as a deer. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. [[Madness Mantra|Fear cuts deeper than swords]].''}}

{{quote| ''They were quite regularly [[Have a Gay Old Time|gay]] there, Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene, they were regularly gay there where they were gay. They were very regularly gay. To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay everyday. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been everyday quite regularly gay.''}}

** How could you forget her most famous line:

*** "[[Singin in The Rain (Film)|A toes is a toes is a toes is a toes is]]"?

** Also "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write". For some strange reason this never got popular.