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* Terry Pratchett's ''[[Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'' hangs a lampshade on it when describing the carriage crash that kills the heroine's parents. In fact, due to ''Discworld''{{'}}s [[Theory of Narrative Causality|Law Of Narrative Causality]], this happens in every single crash. Not just the ones featured in the books - ''every'' one.
{{quote|''Then the oil from the coach lamps ignites and there is a second explosion, out of which rolls -- because there are certain conventions, even in tragedy -- a burning wheel.''}}
** Analogously, whenever a waiter drops plates or some similar accident occurs, there is always one undamaged plate that rolls out of the wreckage (as mentioned in ''[[Hogfather]]'').
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