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== Literature ==

* ''[[Candide]]'' by Voltaire fits this trope in its attempts to parody the philosophy of Leibniz.

* 'Most parodies of one's own work strike one as very poor,' noted [[T. S. Eliot]]. 'In fact one is apt to think one could parody oneself much better.' He noted this in the context of praising an aversion; Henry Reed's "[http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/chardwhitlow.html Chard Whitlow]", which doesn't settle for making cheap swipes at Eliot's best known works, but parodies what his poems are actually ''like''.