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{{quote|''We are assured as children that monsters don't exist. So even when someone sees a monster, he still doesn't ''remember'' seeing a monster. In his mind's eye he sees a "big dog" or a "large man" or a "blur at the edge of vision" -- [[Weirdness Censor|anything except a creature he
This is when a story has a [[Masquerade]] in place that, based on the events of the plot, should have been [[Broken Masquerade|broken]], but somehow [[Status Quo Is God|isn't]]. Maybe a dragon terrorized the populace of Manhattan. Maybe aliens landed in London and had [[Spot of Tea|tea with]] the Queen. Or maybe the Sphinx came to life and led a mummy army against Cairo. Whatever the specifics may be, it seems like the world of the story should have become [[The Unmasqued World|unmasqued]], yet the general public seems as ignorant as ever.
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