History MundaneMadeAwesome / Literature

* English poet [[Creator/LordByron Byron]], back in the early 19th century, wrote [[SophisticatedAsHell this marvellous piece]] on the death of the hated Lord Castlereagh:

-->'''Mouse:''' Hail! Hail to the room service menu of wings and mozzarella sticks! Hail to the two hundred and thirty-seven channels! Oh, greatest of rejoicing, for this is the hotel of High-Wattage Exterior Lighting, attracting such delights from out the desert wastes! Hail!

* Sara Stein's 1982 children's non-fiction work, ''The Science Book'', opens each of its three sections with an account of a family having breakfast in an ordinary suburban household. This trope applies, because each section - one on the visible external world, one on internal anatomy and life processes, and one on the intangibles of atoms and energy - describes what's going on in terms of [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the wonders of biology, chemistry and physics]], making a plate of fried eggs sound like a marvel of the universe.

* In ''Literature/TheFourLoves'', the analogy C.S. Lewis uses to illustrate how intensely our needs press upon us is to (delicately) describe the state of mind one is in when one finds a bathroom during a PottyEmergency as an impulse to break out in sacred verse.

* ''Literature/TimeTo'': The mice often hold very flashy signs for the relatively minor topics, and it's exaggerated in "Time to Pee!" where they throw a party to celebrate ''peeing''.

* In ''Literature/DinosaurVs'', Dinosaur acts like he's competing against tough opponents, when really he's just doing things like making lemonade and jumping in leaves.

** At one point in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', the protagonist has to learn the famous "Departure aria", in which her character sings about how difficult it is to leave her lover. This stunning piece of opera music (one of the opera masters is moved to tears to the point of being unable to speak by a talented rendition) turns out to [[FunWithForeignLanguages roughly translate]] as ''"This damn door sticks/This damn door sticks/It sticks no matter what the hell I do/It is marked pull and indeed I am pulling/Perhaps it should be marked push?"''.
** ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'' features the semi-literate, word-phobic Rob Anybody Feegle performing probably the most dramatic spelling of the word "marmalade" ever.
** Inverted in ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime''. Lu-Tze shows off his badassery by ''eating one chocolate-covered espresso bean without wanting more''.
** It's a recurring theme of ''Discworld'' that the mundane ''is'' awesome, and a huge amount of our brains' processing power is dedicated to convincing us it isn't, so we don't sit around going "Wow!" all day. As Death puts it in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', the universe is filled with remarkable and wonderful things, and one of them is that humans have managed to invent boredom.

** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind learns that the Counterweight Continent's revolution was instigated by a book titled ''What I Did On My Holidays''. When he gets a chance to read said book, he finds that it describes rather ordinary things, but in a fiercely exciting manner. This is because the people of the Agatean Empire are so oppressed that the idea of a place where you can insult the local police and not be punished horribly or buy meat-like products at a discount is a wonder to behold. Rincewind sarcastically notes that the author clearly hasn't been to [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] [[spoiler: and at that moment realizes that the author ''had'' been to Ankh-Morpork; ''What I Did On My Holidays'' is ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' and ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' from Twoflower's perspective!]]

* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' novel ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', the narrator spends several pages describing the art of sandwich making.

* In ''Literature/DinosaurVs'', Dinosaur acts like he's competing against tough opponents, when really he's just doing things like making lemonade and jumping in leaves.
* An entire chapter of ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' is dedicated to describing the artistry and skill of ... the Sandwich Maker. (Arthur accidentally found himself stuck on a planet which had all the requirements to make sandwiches, but where nobody had thought of it before. They were very impressed.)

* In ''Literature/DinosaurVs'', Dinosaur acts like he's competing against tough opponents, when really he's just doing things like making lemonade and jumping in leaves.

* German satirist Kurt Tucholsky [[TakeThat dealing a volley]] against [[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brecht]], [[TropesAreNotBad accusing him of this trope]]:

* Roughly contemporaneously with Ovid, there's a poem known as "Moretum", which describes in glorious detail a peasant farmer making ''moretum'', a cheese-and-herb spread that is an ancestor to pesto. It's sometimes considered the work of a young Creator/{{Virgil}}, but consensus holds that it's at least as likely to be someone else's work attributed to the great poet by generations. Somewhat amusingly, however, it does include the first known use of the phrase "e pluribus unum" ("Out of Many, One", most famously the semi-official motto of UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, but in context used to describe the multi-colored ingredients of the ''moretum''--garlic, cheese, herbs, maybe some oil and nuts--coming together to form a uniformly colored paste).

* The ''Literature/CraftSequence'' is a novel series about economic crises and legal disputes... in a world where the economy and the lawyers are powered by magic. Resurrecting a dead god to restore the flow of his power across the globe = corporate bankruptcy proceeding and debt restructuring.