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{{quote|"The children are suddenly surrounded by a couple of wildcats who prepare to slaughter the children until a man shows up on another bus with a rifle and shoots it at the wildcats. If none of this makes any sense, that's okay, since it's never refered to ever again."|[http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/02/09-welcome-to-camp-nightmare_20.html Review] of ''[[Goosebumps]] #09: Welcome to Camp Nightmare''}}
[[It Makes Sense in Context]] of the book you're reading right now, right? '''[[
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* The Danse Macabre in ''[[The Graveyard Book]]''.
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{{quote|Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them. Put out of countenance by the manner in which he thus "set foot" upon the New World, he uttered a loud cry, which so frightened the innumerable cormorants and pelicans that are always perched upon these movable quays, that they flew noisily away. }}
* There's that uncomfortable and unnerving "Vodka" chapter that comes the eff out of nowhere late in ''[[His Dark Materials]]''. Will, a 12 or 13 year old boy, is traveling alone. He stops at the house of an old priest to ask for directions. The priest pushes him into accepting a drink of vodka, chats in an overly friendly manner, is very touchy-feely, tries to convince Will to stay a while and is just generally creepy. After few pages of this, Will insists on leaving and the man gives him a hug and lets him go. There is no mention of the incident or the old man ever again.
* In addition to a number of [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]] incidents, one can probably find a number of
* There is a particularly [[
* [[The Lost Symbol]] has a chapter where the hero is unconcious... literally. Not mentioned again, not used, nothing, whole chapter = sleeping hero.
* The episode of the dinner of Trimalchio in Petronius' ''[[Literature/Satyricon|Satyricon]]''. It also happens to be the only passage that survives intact.
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** Fans of the ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series were worried that King would die before he completed the series because he kept taking too long between books and he was a heavy smoker. Eddie is serving as a stand in voice for the fans who want their story to be completed and Roland is a stand in voice for King, who politely but firmly rebukes Eddie.
*** Hmm. That makes some sense, but the scene on the whole comes so out-of-the-blue and is never mentioned again and has so many bizarre touches (does King really believe that smoking is good for him? Is what Roland says true in the [[Dark Tower]] universe?) that it's a BLAM. Just having Roland say something about whatever Ka wills would have been more in tune with the feel of the series and would distract far less from the story.
** There are a LOT stranger scenes than that. Mrs. Tassenbaum starts out as a Big-Lipped Alligator, coming out of nowhere with a long backstory. Then she finally meets Roland, and it becomes a [[
*** Didn't help Roland? Who drove him to the two important places he needed to be? I doubt the ancient Roland knows how to drive a stick.
* In the children's classic ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'', there's the infamous 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' chapter, where the characters are transported into a mystical world where they meet the great god Pan. Many editions of the book omit this chapter, not because it's bad, just because it's so baffling in relation to the rest of the story.
** Two chapters earlier, there's a whole side-story where the main characters are nearly lured to a life at sea by a siren. Like the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, this too comes out of nowhere and is never heard of again.
*** While it still probably qualifies as a BLAM, the lurer is a wizened old ship-going sea rat who beguiles Water Rat. It's a pretty clear shout-out to ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''.
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* Deke McClelland's ''Photoshop 4.0 Bible'' (as the title implies, it's a how-to guide) pulls one off at the very end, after several hundred pages of [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]: in the middle of a step-by-step guide to making a graphical effect, step 29 is a snippet of a suspense story about a spy sneaking through the dark. And halfway through, the Prime Minister pops up out of nowhere only to get shot. (So, a BLAM - both a figurative and a literal one, to boot - within a BLAM!) The author then goes back to Photoshop tips, commenting that he dislikes Step 29, since it's troublesome and makes all others look dull in comparison.
* ''DOS For Dummies'' included, among its many how-tos on MS-DOS, step-by-step instructions on how to change a nappy.
* [[Your Mileage May Vary|Arguably]] the entire two or three chapters featuring the hobbits' adventures with Tom Bombadil in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is a very lengthy BLAM chiefly about singing excruciatingly bad folk songs and talking about how awesome Goldberry is. Actual connections to the plot of the rest of the book amount to: (a) the One Ring doesn't work on Bombadil - which gets ''one'' mention at the Council of
* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] book ''[[The Callista Trilogy|Darksaber]]'' features a particularly odd moment when Luke Skywalker and love interest Callista (an Old Republic Jedi preserved in stasis who has lost her connection to the Force) visit Hoth, where they are attacked by the wampa that had its arm cut off by Luke in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. This isn't explained- though it's referenced here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wampa
* In the middle of the original Gaston Leroux novel ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (well, at least in the original English translation,) a man on fire runs through an underground passage at one point, scaring the protagonists and then just as quickly runs right out of the scene and the novel and no one ever talks or thinks about it afterwards.
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* [[Harry Potter]]'s dreams and [[Imagine Spot|mental images]] can be downright WEIRD. Take, for instance, the dream Harry had in book 5 right before [[Mood Whiplash|the attack on Arthur Weasley.]] In summary, Cho Chang tells Harry that Cedric {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion|(who's dead, by the way)]]}} bought her tons of Chocolate Frogs, Hermione suggests giving her his Firebolt, he explains that it's currently locked in [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|Umbridge's]] office, and he's trying to hang up Christmas ornaments shaped like Dobby's head. [[Mind Screw|Yeah.]]
** On the other hand, they all lead to the scenes were Voldemort's point of view and thoughts seep into his mind. Perhaps it only works during REM sleep, or when his mind is particularly unfocused?
* There's an incident in Douglas Reeman's [[World War II]] novel ''Rendezvous - South Atlantic''. The main character, Commander Lindsay, had fallen for a young woman named Eve Collins, and then a German raider sank the transport she was aboard. A few months later, in Ceylon, Lindsay stopped by a restaurant. He'd just decided he wasn't hungry after all and was about to leave when the proprietor came to sit at his table and talk to him, telling Lindsay it wasn't the right time yet for him to depart. After a bit of conversation, mostly carried by the restaurant owner, he told Lindsay, "Now you may leave." Lindsay thanked him, left, and almost immediately {{spoiler|met Eve, alive after all because at the last moment before sailing she'd been transferred off the ship he thought she'd died on. Happy reunion, etc}}. But ... why was that business with the restaurateur talking about
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