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* [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Plato's ''[[Symposium]]'' is set during a house party. When Aristophanes shows to make his speech up [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0174:text=Sym.:section=185c&highlight=hiccough he has hiccups] which Socrates blames on [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surfeit surfeit], excessive drinking.
* Several characters in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' including Sir Cadogan, Winky, Horace Slughorn, and Hagrid.
* [[Rudyard Kipling]] wrote a spoof [[William Shakespeare]] play<ref>It involved automobiles!</ref> in which many of Shakespeare's characters cross over from their varying plays. When Hamlet, clearly drunk, shows up to talk with Prince Hal, one of the first things he says is "Your pardon too. 'Tis the Rhenish." A "footnote" explains that what he was asking Hal's pardon for was evidently a hiccup.
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