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== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Arabian Nights]]''. The whole thing is composed of Nested Stories, and some of the "stand-alone" stories are as many as seven levels deep.
** Fittingly, the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414111954/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=980 Shahrazad] starts a new game within the current game.
* ''[[Frankenstein]]'': At the deepest level: The family on whom the monster is spying is telling a story, within the monster's story to Dr. Frankenstein, who is in turn recounting the story to the captain of a ship in the Arctic, who is in turn telling someone else about it in a letter.
* The dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" in Douglas Hofstadter's ''[[Godel Escher Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'' is one of these. It includes [[Lampshade Hanging]] and discussion of the whole concept of "push" and "pop" story. Helpfully, each level of reality is denoted by an indent in the text, but the indents are used for other things besides telling stories in stories- in one section, Achilles and the Tortoise find a magic lamp and meet a Genie. Attempting to get a wish for more wishes, the genie initially refuses saying that it can't grant "meta-wishes" (wishes about wishes) but eventually relents, but it has to ask the Meta-Genie to allow it to grant a meta-wish... and the Meta-Genie has to ask the Meta-Meta-Genie, and so on. Each genie's lines are indented one more than the previous one. {{spoiler|Naturally, the outermost story (in which Achilles and the Tortoise get kidnapped and start reading a book while they wait for the villain) never does get resolved...}}
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* As mentioned above, [[Magic: The Gathering]] has [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414111954/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=980 a card] that starts a game of Magic within the current one, named as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Arabian Nights]]. Of course, you could have four of these cards in your deck, resulting in games lasting roughly five times longer than normal. The card has since been banned at official tournaments.
** Actually closer to around fourteen if no card recovery systems are used. However, chances are that it will last significantly shorter.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Xkcd]]'', [http://xkcd.com/244/ Tabletop Roleplaying] (which uses a concept similar to one in an old ''[[PvP]]'' strip), and less traditionally [http://xkcd.com/248/ Hypotheticals].
* The webcomic ''[[Grim Tales from Down Below]]'' has this, using a series of flashbacks within flashbacks. Starting with Jr. relating to Spawn how he got to be the Reaper, 3 days ago in Halloween, where he met a group of kids and told them the story of how his father Grim married his mother [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Played for laughs in [http://tallcomics.com/?id=76 this page] of ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]'', with five layers of webcomic authors demanding that someone read their webcomic.
* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in a strip in [[DMFA]]. Dan stops Aliyka from telling a story in order to prevent one of these.
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