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* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' series is presented as the autobiography of the eponymous officer, suitably edited by one of his long-time allies. Since he's basically laying out his life story to a recorder over many, many sessions, he naturally rambles at times and elides lots of important detail (which has to be cleaned up by the editor, of course). Occasional footnotes to the effect of "this is a fascinating story which need not detain us right now" crop up every once in a while. (Perhaps the crowning example is an entire novel which is presented as having been, in the main, an aside brought up ''in a completely different account'' in the "original text".)
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* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' series is presented as the autobiography of the eponymous officer, suitably edited by one of his long-time allies. Since he's basically laying out his life story to a recorder over many, many sessions, he naturally rambles at times and elides lots of important detail (which has to be cleaned up by the editor, of course). Occasional footnotes to the effect of "this is a fascinating story which need not detain us right now" crop up every once in a while. (Perhaps the crowning example is an entire novel which is presented as having been, in the main, an aside brought up ''in a completely different account'' in the "original text".)
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* In ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' when Allanon tells Shea the history of the races of the world. The trolls and gnomes are humans whose ancestors were mutated by radiation; dwarves are humans who hid underground, and through natural selection became accustomed to subterranean habitats. Noticing the obvious odd-one out, Shea asks about the Elves, and Allanon invokes this trope. Not only is it eventually followed up on, it can be considered a SequelHook, since the next book is all about the Elves and their history.
* There's a variation in Edgar Pangborn's short story "Tiger Boy", after the villager Bruno meets the title character. Bruno wonders where Tiger Boy came from, why he is traveling with a tiger, and what he intends to do with his life, but doesn't ask because he is satisfied that Tiger Boy will tell him if he feels like it. This is no doubt Pangborn's way of [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the questions the readers must be asking themselves. In the event the questions remain unanswered [[spoiler:when Bruno and Tiger Boy are killed]].
* In ''Literature/TheWeaponOfAJedi'', Threepio says this about Luke's return to Devaron.
* There's a variation in Edgar Pangborn's short story "Tiger Boy", after the villager Bruno meets the title character. Bruno wonders where Tiger Boy came from, why he is traveling with a tiger, and what he intends to do with his life, but doesn't ask because he is satisfied that Tiger Boy will tell him if he feels like it. This is no doubt Pangborn's way of [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the questions the readers must be asking themselves. In the event the questions remain unanswered [[spoiler:when Bruno and Tiger Boy are killed]].
* In ''Literature/TheWeaponOfAJedi'', Threepio says this about Luke's return to Devaron.
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* In ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' when ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'': When Allanon tells Shea the history of the races of the world. The trolls and gnomes are humans whose ancestors were mutated by radiation; dwarves are humans who hid underground, and through natural selection became accustomed to subterranean habitats. Noticing the obvious odd-one out, Shea asks about the Elves, and Allanon invokes this trope. Not only is it eventually followed up on, it can be considered a SequelHook, since the next book is all about the Elves and their history.
*There's a variation "Literature/ThroughTheGatesOfTheSilverKey": While retelling Carter's life, Chandraputra notes that his stay on Yaddith lasted for thousands of years, and included ages of struggle with Zkauba for control of their shared body, consultations with sages and wizards, and journeys to other planets, but, in Edgar Pangborn's short story the interest of expediency and to avoid staying there all night to tell the minutiae of these events, he will have to quickly summarize the gist of it before moving on to Carter's return to Earth.
* "Tiger Boy",after by Edgar Pangborn: A variation. After the villager Bruno meets the title character. Bruno wonders where Tiger Boy came from, why he is traveling with a tiger, and what he intends to do with his life, but doesn't ask because he is satisfied that Tiger Boy will tell him if he feels like it. This is no doubt Pangborn's way of [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the questions the readers must be asking themselves. In the event the questions remain unanswered [[spoiler:when Bruno and Tiger Boy are killed]].
* In ''Literature/TheWeaponOfAJedi'', %%* ''Literature/TheWeaponOfAJedi'': Threepio says this about Luke's return to Devaron.
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