History UnusuallyUninterestingSight / Literature

* In his book ''The Age of Reason'' Creator/ThomasPaine wrote that, assuming it happened, the rising of the dead described in the [[Literature/TheBible Gospel of Matthew]] at Jesus' death must have been this, since no one appears to have written down any other accounts about it. Nor does it say [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened afterward]]-did they return home to their families, attempt to reclaim their property, or just go back into their graves quietly?

** Also from DouglasAdams, in ''TheLongDarkTeatimeOfTheSoul'', Thor the Thunder God has a spectacular fight with a huge golden eagle in a Primrose Hill neighborhood, in which thunderbolts and hammers are tossed and the opponents Roof Hop between the tops of lampposts. When it's over, an elderly lady who'd paused under one of the lampposts simply resumes her dog's evening walk, content to move on without comment now that the ruckus isn't in her way.

* The character of Clara in ''The House of the Spirits'' has [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]]. It's mentioned that when she was young and people came over for dinner her family worked out a system to prevent people from noticing plates and saltshakers randomly rising into the air. When she's older, her husband and children are utterly unfazed by seeing her sitting in a chair that's zooming around the room and playing the piano with the cover closed.

* The character of Rosa in ''The House of the Spirits'' is a mermaid. Other than the narrator, this goes unremarked.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the protagonist at one point reveals himself to his TrueCompanions to be alive despite having seemed dead for over a year. Absolutely nobody is surprised by this, though they do take the time to confirm its him first. At least one person even figures it out, figures out what he's doing, and comes to help without even being told it's him. They, too, are completely nonplussed.

* According to ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' the Romans considered the Romans just like this: a (creepy) problem requiring a practical solution (namely, cut the head of the monster and burn the whole thing as soon as they are all beheaded). They also wrote their own manual to dispatch zombies, that allowed them to neutralize all outbreaks in their territories before they became actual threats (the one that did was outside of their territories and prompted both the building of Hadrian's Wall and the creation of the Roman manual).

* In the ''PrincipiaDiscordia'', in the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.

** More likely than not, this is so that the Librarian doesn't think [[IncrediblyLamePun someone called him an ape]]...
*** [[DontExplainTheJoke Actually, he's okay with being called an "ape"]]. Just don't call him a "[[BerserkButton monkey]]"[[note]][[OhCrap ohshit]][[/note]].
* In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', everyone seems more focused on the results of the football game than the floating, glowing golden woman.
** Possibly a truthful reaction, then. It was a close game.
** Also, this is the Discworld; weird manifestations of gods really do happen all the time. In ''The Discworld Almanak'' we're told that the God of Astrology regularly visits the publishers with the rays of the sun coming out of his head, a belt of stars, one foot resting on a lion and the other on a crocodile, and carrying nine daggers in one hand and the crescent moon in the other. The only reason he turns heads when walking through Ankh-Morpork is that the lion moves faster than the crocodile.

* In the TortallUniverse, ''Song of the Lioness'' has Alanna followed around and helped by a supernatural cat. He's black with startling purple eyes, talks, does magic, is generally very intelligent and knowing, and does such very uncatlike things as traveling across the world and joining his mistress in battle. People notice his eyes, and are startled the first time he speaks to them, but largely his strangeness is not remarked upon, although such cats are not otherwise seen in the story. Even Alanna, though she once wonders if he's a god or something, quickly concludes that he's just a cat.

* In the EarthseaTrilogy Roke Island is home to the [[WizardingSchool School of Magic]] which results in all sorts of bizarre occurrences such as flying houses, people transforming into an animal (or vice versa), etc. The locals are used to this and barely give a second glance.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the protagonist at one point reveals himself to his TrueCompanions to be alive despite having seemed dead for over a year. Absolutely nobody is surprised by this, though they do take the time to confirm its him first. At least one person even figures it out, figures out what he's doing, and comes to help without even being told its him. They, too, are completely nonplussed.

* This principle is so well understood in the HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy universe that it has been weaponized as the SEP (Someone Else's Problem) field. If something is so unusual that it doesn't make any sense for it to be there, people will just pretend it isn't.

** More likely than not, this is so that the Librarian doesn't think [[BerserkButton someone called him an ape]]...

* Built up in DavidWeber's ''{{Safehold}}'' book, ''Off Armageddon Reef.'' King Haarahld and Prince Cayleb each work out that ''seijin'' Merlin Athrawes is much more than the already extraordinary person he appears. So much so, that when Merlin has to expose some of his full ability to deliver a warning from Cayleb to Haarahld in a single night (when normal methods would have taken two weeks) neither are especially shocked. When Haarahld in particular fails to react to Merlin's sudden appearance, Merlin ponders if their family has some kind of genetic defect since something is clearly wrong with their "Fight or Flight" instincts.

* Justified in the {{Belgariad}}, no one thinks Garion's BFS is at all out of place, becuase the Orb attached to the pommel gives it a built in WeirdnessCensor that makes people ignore it.

* In the Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia, in the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.

* In the ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'', in the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.