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* A non-comedic version of this is what basically sets the plot of ''[[The Demolished Man]]'' into motion. The protagonist is so convinced that a hated business rival will refuse his offer to merge their firms that he literally cannot see that the coded answer he gets is actually an ''agreement'' and thus starts to {{spoiler|plot the man's murder}}. Different from most other cases here in that the misunderstanding is only cleared up {{spoiler|weeks after he has already succeeded}}.
* In Aldous Huxley's ''Island,'' the protagonist, a world-weary journalist, refers to himself as "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Not an example of this trope, since he's joking about his
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