Conveniently Interrupted Document: Difference between revisions

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[[Scrapbook Story|Scrapbook Stories]], [[Epistolary Novel]]s and other works of the kind which make heavy use of [[Fictional Document]]s will almost inevitably run into the problem of how to avoid the [[Fictional Document]] giving away too much information. Supposing the novel in question is a [[Cosmic Horror Story]] and the [[Fictional Document]] refers to [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|Things Man Was Not Meant To Know]], or [[Brown Note]]s which supposedly cause the reader to [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]. Obviously, few writers are skilled enough to actually compose such a [[Brown Note]], so including the [[Brown Note]] in the text of the [[Fictional Document]] itself is out of the question. But the writer still needs to use the [[Fictional Document]] to get vital plot information across. How does the writer get out of this quandary?

 

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== Film ==

* In ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'', Miss Price sees Mr. Brown about a spell book. She gets it and reads about the Substitutiary Locomotion spell, but the part where it talks about the incantation used to activate the spell is on a page that got torn out of the book. The group had to go to Portobello Road to look for it.