History Fridge / Literature

* Creator/JohnRingo. The VillainProtagonist of the ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' series, a would-be kiddy diddler who hunts and kills ''actual'' rapists and pedophiles. Origin of "[[MemeticMutation OH JOHN RINGO NO]]". AuthorAppeal in describing the protagonist's arousal at seeing young women - girls, really, brutally victimized and forced into prostitution? '''[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation OR]]''', ''utterly'' brutal no-holds-barred {{Deconstruction}} of EvilIsSexy and/or DracoInLeatherPants tropes? (Possibly even a TakeThat at fans thereof.)

* Fridge/HandOfThrawn

* Fridge/TheMagids

* Fridge/{{Twilight}}

* ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe ends with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the House of Usher collapsing]]. This occurs for no readily apparent reason. But when I read it a second time for a different class, I discovered something. Amidst the dense, plodding prose, clues are given as to why it happened. The narrator notices that all the stones that make up the building are permeated with lichens. One of the mad Roderick Usher's strange beliefs is that plants are sentient. They destroyed the house by deliberately compromising the stonework that supported it.

* This troper read the Creator/DrSeuss book "Ten Apples On Top" [[labelnote:plot]] which involves a lion, a dog, and a tiger finding fun in stacking apples on top of their heads[[/labelnote]] and wondered why the irate bear with the mop felt obligated to try an beat the three critters, as he/she didn't have much reason, [[labelnote:additionally]] other folks had a good reason, the birds were just hungry, and they kept knocking the kid with the tennis racket down[[/labelnote]] Then it occured to me, if I were that bear, I'd probably be mad too if I had just discovered that a lion, a dog, and a tiger had just wrecked my kitchen and hijacked my apples. - kablammin45

* ''Literature/FinnegansWake'': I was already aware of the pun in the title ("Finn again is awake") referring to the giant of Irish mythology returning from his death at the novel's beginning, with some interpretations being to defend Ireland from ... [[MindScrew something]]. What I hadn't thought of was this: the lack of apostrophe, which I had thought was just a stylistic device conveying the stream of consciousness storytelling of HCE's dreams, can be taken to indicate multiple Finnegans who are all waking up. One of the big thematic concerns of the book is the recurrence and reliving of myth in the everyday lives of ordinary people -- who by the novel's end (the morning as HCE's dream ends) are ''all waking up''.

* There was a time when I was confused by the times in Franchise/TheCthulhuMythos when the humans would win against the Old Ones. Then I realized something - cosmic horror isn't about alien gods, it's about the cosmos. The Old Ones are mighty, but even they are ultimately insignificant in the grandest of grand scopes. Why wouldn't the humans be able to score a few victories? The Old Ones aren't all-powerful, either.

** WordOfGod has it that the series is meant as a deconstruction of numerous tropes in men's adventure fiction (including those mentioned above) ''and'' a TakeThat at the fans thereof. Ringo supports a charity that helps rehabilitate girls/women forced into prostitutio

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