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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is a book about a boy named Bastian who is reading a book titled "The Neverending Story", which's contents makes up most of the plot in the book. Adding another layer to it, there's also The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, who is currently writing The Neverending Story, the very book The Old Man's own world is contained within.
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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is a book about a boy named Bastian who is reading a book titled "The Neverending Story", which's whose contents makes up most of the plot in the book. Adding another layer to it, there's also The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, who is currently writing The Neverending Story, the very book The Old Man's own world is contained within.
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* The dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" in ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' is one of these. It includes LampshadeHanging and discussion of the whole concept of "push" and "pop" story. Helpfully, each level of reality is denoted by an indent in the text, but the indents are used for other things besides telling stories in stories- in one section, Achilles and the Tortoise find a magic lamp and meet a Genie. Attempting to get a wish for more wishes, the genie initially refuses saying that it can't grant "meta-wishes" (wishes about wishes) but eventually relents, but it has to ask the Meta-Genie to allow it to grant a meta-wish... and the Meta-Genie has to ask the Meta-Meta-Genie, and so on. Each genie's lines are indented one more than the previous one. [[spoiler: In keeping with the "screw with your mind and make you enjoy it" nature of the book as a whole, the outermost story (in which Achilles and the Tortoise get kidnapped and start reading a book while they wait for the villain) never does get resolved. However, you have to keep careful track of the story levels to realize this.]]
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* The dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" in ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' is one of these. It includes LampshadeHanging and discussion of the whole concept of "push" and "pop" story. Helpfully, each level of reality is denoted by an indent in the text, but the indents are used for other things besides telling stories in stories- stories -- in one section, Achilles and the Tortoise find a magic lamp and meet a Genie. Attempting to get a wish for more wishes, the genie initially refuses saying that it can't grant "meta-wishes" (wishes about wishes) but eventually relents, but it has to ask the Meta-Genie to allow it to grant a meta-wish... and the Meta-Genie has to ask the Meta-Meta-Genie, and so on. Each genie's lines are indented one more than the previous one. [[spoiler: In keeping with the "screw with your mind and make you enjoy it" nature of the book as a whole, the outermost story (in which Achilles and the Tortoise get kidnapped and start reading a book while they wait for the villain) never does get resolved. However, you have to keep careful track of the story levels to realize this.]]
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* Several of the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, particularly ''A Study in Scarlet'', and ''The Valley of Fear'' have Holmes' investigation of a crime mostly as an excuse to put a frame around the killer's why he done it story.
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* Several of the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, particularly ''A Study in Scarlet'', and ''The Valley of Fear'' Fear'', have Holmes' investigation of a crime mostly as an excuse to put a frame around the killer's why he done it why-he-done-it story.
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-->Eddy: "How the heck'd we get here? This isn't what I was remembering."\\
Edd: "I'm confused, Eddy. You were originally flashing back to something you remembered. What was it?"\\
Eddy: "I can't remember now. First Jonny stole my flashback, then Nazz, and now Rolf."
Edd: "I'm confused, Eddy. You were originally flashing back to something you remembered. What was it?"\\
Eddy: "I can't remember now. First Jonny stole my flashback, then Nazz, and now Rolf."
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Added example(s); but if someone could give the title of the story in question...
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* One Literature/SherlockHolmes story ends up with its quote marks nested four deep: Holmes describing a past case to Watson, in which a character describes to Holmes an incident he was told of by another character, in which yet another character describes an event...
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* The dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" in ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' is one of these. It includes LampshadeHanging and discussion of the whole concept of "push" and "pop" story. Helpfully, each level of reality is denoted by an indent in the text, but the indents are used for other things besides telling stories in stories- in one section, Achilles and the Tortoise find a magic lamp and meet a Genie. Attempting to get a wish for more wishes, the genie initially refuses saying that it can't grant "meta-wishes" (wishes about wishes) but eventually relents, but it has to ask the Meta-Genie to allow it to grant a meta-wish... and the Meta-Genie has to ask the Meta-Meta-Genie, and so on. Each genie's lines are indented one more than the previous one. [[spoiler: Naturally, the outermost story (in which Achilles and the Tortoise get kidnapped and start reading a book while they wait for the villain) never does get resolved...]]
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* The dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" in ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'' is one of these. It includes LampshadeHanging and discussion of the whole concept of "push" and "pop" story. Helpfully, each level of reality is denoted by an indent in the text, but the indents are used for other things besides telling stories in stories- in one section, Achilles and the Tortoise find a magic lamp and meet a Genie. Attempting to get a wish for more wishes, the genie initially refuses saying that it can't grant "meta-wishes" (wishes about wishes) but eventually relents, but it has to ask the Meta-Genie to allow it to grant a meta-wish... and the Meta-Genie has to ask the Meta-Meta-Genie, and so on. Each genie's lines are indented one more than the previous one. [[spoiler: Naturally, In keeping with the "screw with your mind and make you enjoy it" nature of the book as a whole, the outermost story (in which Achilles and the Tortoise get kidnapped and start reading a book while they wait for the villain) never does get resolved...resolved. However, you have to keep careful track of the story levels to realize this.]]
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* ''Film/TheWonderfulStoryOfHenrySugar'': Imdad Khan's story is told to Z.Z. Chatterjee, which is being read by Henry, whose story is in turn being narrated by Roald Dahl.
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* A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, "I'll give you a free drink if you can tell me a meta-joke." The guy replies, "A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, 'I'll give you a free drink if you can tell me a meta-joke.' The guy replies, 'A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, "Here you go." So the bartender gives the guy a drink.' So the bartender gives the guy a drink." [[RuleOfThree So the bartender gives the guy a drink.]]
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* A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, "I'll give you a free drink if you can tell me a meta-joke." The guy replies, "A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, 'I'll give you a free drink if you can tell me a meta-joke.' The guy replies, 'A guy walks into a bar and he asks for a drink. The bartender says, "Here you go." So the bartender gives the guy a drink.' So the bartender gives the guy a drink." [[RuleOfThree So the bartender gives the guy a drink.]]
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* In ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', Mr. Orange is telling a false story about a job he was on some years back, and to sell the authenticity he includes the story he claims he overheard from some cops hanging out in a bathroom. The cop pulled someone over, and the driver began conspicuously reaching for the glove box after repeated instructions to stop reaching for the glove box. It got to the point where the cop had draw his gun and explicitly warned that he was going to shoot, before the driver's wife finally got him to stop reaching. [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet The punchline is that he was reaching for his registration.]]
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Clever, but that's not part of the work itself.
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** And all this is in a story told to us by Mary Shelley.
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-->-- '''The Oracle''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick: Recap/StartOfDarkness''
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-->-- '''The Oracle''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick: Recap/StartOfDarkness''
[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]''
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* In line with the Oral Storytelling tradition side of the trope, the "World's End" arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features those caught in a reality storm telling stories, sometimes about people who told them a story about a person who told them a story... Occasionally, this gets to be five-deep in stories. The arc also ends with a NestedStoryReveal.
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* In line with the Oral Storytelling tradition side of the trope, the "World's End" arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' features those caught in a reality storm telling stories, sometimes about people who told them a story about a person who told them a story... Occasionally, this gets to be five-deep in stories. The arc also ends with a NestedStoryReveal.
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* This happens a couple of times in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
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* This happens a couple of times in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. For instance, most of a chapter is taken up by a hotel owner in Rome telling his guests about the rise of the bandit chief currently plaguing the area. In the middle of the story there is embedded another story illustrating the heinousness of the previous bandit chief he overthrew.
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straightforward examples of Framing Device are better left to that page
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%%* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''.
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* ''Old Peter's Russian tales'', by Arthur Ransome is about an old Russian peasant telling stories to his grandchildren while the huddle round the stove in the Russian winter.
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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/GeorgeAndAzazel'' stories, George tells his stories to the writer whenever they meet in a bar or a restaurant (the writer always has to be the one paying the bills).
