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* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' does this from time to time, most frequently if Nynaeve is the perspective character, or is being remarked about by another character. Particularly, she tends to complain of people being unreasonably violent, and then propose to hit them until they stop it. |
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' does this from time to time, most frequently if Nynaeve is the perspective character, or is being remarked about by another character. Particularly, she tends to complain of people being unreasonably violent, and then propose to hit them until they stop it. |
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* ''[[Don Quixote]]:'' When Don Quixote reads some pages of the Second Part of ''Don Quixote of La Mancha'' (an unauthorized [[Fan Fiction]]), he claims there are obvious errors from the author, the most important is that he errs on the name of Sancho’s wife… Cervantes, the original author, [[Series Continuity Error|give her five different names in his two parts of the novels.]] |
* ''[[Don Quixote]]:'' When Don Quixote reads some pages of the Second Part of ''Don Quixote of La Mancha'' (an unauthorized [[Fan Fiction]]), he claims there are obvious errors from the author, the most important is that he errs on the name of Sancho’s wife… Cervantes, the original author, [[Series Continuity Error|give her five different names in his two parts of the novels.]] |
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* 1870 poem "The Heathen Chinee" by Bret Harte is about two white Americans who intend to cheat a naive Chinese immigrant in a card game, and are outraged when he turns out to be cheating '''them''' at least as effectively. Those Chinese, the narrator declares, are so dishonest by nature! Unfortunately, [[Misaimed Fandom/Literature|a lot of readers]] didn't catch on to the hypocrisy, and to Harte's dismay, hailed his poem as confirming that, yes, Asians can't be trusted. |
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