ext_21044 ([identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] stoutfellow 2008-10-21 06:08 pm (UTC)

I know I've come across it in honest-to-goodness fairy tales before, I just can't remember offhand which ones. Flann O'Brien makes extensive use of the trope in his At Swim-Two-Birds.
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