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* In ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'', one character mentions being amused by another, less educated character's attempts to "read Chevy Chase". A [[Shout Out]] to a 1980s comedian would be rather out-of-place in ''Wuthering Heights'' even if it weren't written ninety-six years before he was born, but it turns out that it's a reference to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase#Other_literary_references The Ballad of Chevy Chase]''. |
* In ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'', one character mentions being amused by another, less educated character's attempts to "read Chevy Chase". A [[Shout Out]] to a 1980s comedian would be rather out-of-place in ''Wuthering Heights'' even if it weren't written ninety-six years before he was born, but it turns out that it's a reference to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase#Other_literary_references The Ballad of Chevy Chase]''. |
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* The older-children's book ''[[Follow My Leader]]'' is about a boy who becomes blind and learns how to work with a seeing-eye dog. The boy's name? Jimmy Carter. (The book was published decades before [[Jimmy Carter|James Earl Carter]] became President of the United States.) |
* The older-children's book ''[[Follow My Leader]]'' is about a boy who becomes blind and learns how to work with a seeing-eye dog. The boy's name? Jimmy Carter. (The book was published decades before [[Jimmy Carter|James Earl Carter]] became President of the United States.) |
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* There are two [[High Fantasy]] series titled "Inheritance." [[The Inheritance Cycle|One]] is a [[ |
* There are two [[High Fantasy]] series titled "Inheritance." [[The Inheritance Cycle|One]] is a [[Cliché Storm]] about a [[Canon Sue|Canon Stu]] [[Dragon Rider]] with a flourishing [[Hatedom]]. [[Inheritance Trilogy|The other]] is a complex and critically-acclaimed story about the interactions of gods and mortals. |
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** Even more complicated before the former underwent [[Trilogy Creep]]. |
** Even more complicated before the former underwent [[Trilogy Creep]]. |
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* A Gothic heroine named Isabella? Do you mean the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''[[Measure for Measure (Theatre)|Measure for Measure]]'', the heroine of the "first" Gothic novel ''[[The Castle of Otranto (Literature)|The Castle of Otranto]]'', [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|the girl who falls for the villain]] and lives just long enough to regret it in the Gothic novel ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'', or the ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'' fangirl who falls for a vampire in ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]''? |
* A Gothic heroine named Isabella? Do you mean the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''[[Measure for Measure (Theatre)|Measure for Measure]]'', the heroine of the "first" Gothic novel ''[[The Castle of Otranto (Literature)|The Castle of Otranto]]'', [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|the girl who falls for the villain]] and lives just long enough to regret it in the Gothic novel ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'', or the ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]'' fangirl who falls for a vampire in ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]''? |
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