Mundane Made Awesome/Literature: Difference between revisions

** At one point in ''[[Maskerade]]'', the protagonist has to learn the famous "Departure aria", in which her character sings about how difficult it is to leave her lover. This stunning piece of opera music (one of the opera masters is moved to tears to the point of being unable to speak by a talented rendition) turns out to [[Fun with Foreign Languages|roughly translate]] as ''"This damn door sticks/This damn door sticks/It sticks no matter what the hell I do/It is marked pull and indeed I am pulling/Perhaps it should be marked push?"''.

** ''[[Wintersmith]]'' features the semi-literate, word-phobic Rob Anybody Feegle performing probably the most dramatic spelling of the word "marmalade" ever.

** [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Death of Rats]]. {{smallcaps| Squeak.}}

** In ''[[Eric]]'', the ruling demon lord of Hell has rejected the traditional goat-legged look for something more up-to-date. His whole-hearted belief that his is a more stylish look is undermined by the fact that it's a cheap Halloween costume (red silk cape, cowl with little stubby horns attached, and a trident that keeps falling apart).