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1	->''VideoGame/AlanWake is about a writer, writing about another writer, who is writing about himself and '''another fucking writer!''' It's like if Creator/MCEscher was a writer, and also a douchebag.''
2	-->-- ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/2/ Your Definition Headquarters]]
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4	->'''Homer:''' Wait a minute. You're telling Moe's story in Burns' story in your story?\
5	'''Lisa:''' Yes, dad. It's like a play inside of a play, like ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. (''Homer is puzzled'') Fine, it's like you watching a home movie of you watching TV.
6	->'''Homer:''' (''understanding'') Oh yeah.
7	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
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9	->'''Storyteller:''' In point of fact I saw the same man again the next night.
10	-->'''Man:''' “Ah. I’m glad to catch you,” he said. “I looked at that letter again, you know, when I got home. There was a P.S. I’d never noticed before. It read:
11	--->'''Cyril:''' ''P.S. As I was on my way to post this, my landlady stopped me in the hall and said: ''
12	---->'''Landlady:''' Oh, sir, my husband says I got that story I told you last night wrong. According to him, old Wilf said:
13	----->'''Wilf:''' "I went for a walk... and I saw a goat."
14	---->'''Landlady:''' ...he said. Sorry about that, sir, he saw a ''goat.''
15	--->'''Cyril:''' ''...she said. Sorry about that, Uncle, he saw a goat.''
16	-->'''Man:''' ...it read. Sorry about that, old man, he saw a goat.
17	->'''Storyteller:''' ...he said. So there you are.
18	-->-- ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'', postscript to a much longer version of the same thing.

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