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* [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Eldritch Abomination]]s. With so much emphasis on their "[[Naughty Tentacles|tentacles]]," their [[Mind Rape]] [[Go Mad from the Revelation|powers]] and their just plain "[[Squick|abominableness]]", compared to our own "insignificance".

** Bonus points for Lovecraft being inspired by chronic night terrors, in other words, what you see in his prose is straight out of the very abysses of the Subconscious Mind. Freud would be highly amused to psychoanalyze ol' H.P.

** [[Brain Bleach|You've scarred me for the rest of my life]]

** It's actually worth noting here that the most common interpretation, and one supposedly even supported by Stevenson himself, is that the story is a metaphor for cocaine addiction. During the time when the story itself was written, people were just starting to become aware of the psychological effects of such addiction and how the dependence on the drug (the formula) became more dominant over time (Hyde), and begn to subjugate the more normal individual (Jekyll) to its dependence. Of course, when one also takes into account the effects cocaine has on sexual ability (e.g., impotence, repressed libido, and more...), the story itself is still not completely inappropriate as an example here.

** Within the Discworld novels Nanny Ogg has written a recipe book, a book of traditional folk tales, and a book of etiquette and household management. All of them are really about sex (although the third one, which exists in the real world as ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook'' isn't ''quite'' as much about sex as the first two, since the publishers had to recall them).

{{quote|'''Granny Weatherwax:''' Maids of Honour?

** And Lord Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork's Patrician (and iron bachelor), ''Does Not Have Balls''. In fact, there's even a famous saying about it in Ankh-Morpork. And a humorous song. Ankh-Morpork's citizens take their amusement where they can find it. Only not during state balls because there aren't any. Obviously.

*** Neither do the wizards. They do not have balls. They do have their annual Excuse Me, though.

{{quote|'''Fassel:''' [...] they say cigars are--

'''Healstether:''' That is a fallacy!

* In ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', the title character has a very charged exchange during the dead of night with her brooding [[Byronic Hero|Byronic]] boss, after she rescues him from a fire. In his bed. Dr. Freud need not trouble himself.

 

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