History Redundancy / Literature

** DaveBarry declares in "The Columnist's Caper": "I have written a suspense novel. It has everything. Sex. Violence. Sex. Death. [[{{Lzherusskie}} Russians]]. Dead Russians."

* ''DaveBarry's Book of Bad Songs'' includes lists sent in by a long-time professional musician of the ten most hated requested songs of Top 40 bands and wedding bands. The title "[[LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]]" is listed 5 times in the former (and "[[CreedenceClearwaterRevival Proud Mary]]" is listed twice), and "New York, New York" is listed 4 times in the latter (including "New York, New York, and I'm the Bride's Father and I Have Your Check Right Here in my Hand So You Better Play It, Dammit").

---> ''[Thought]. 'Jeeves,' I said, '[repeat thought].' ''

---> '' 'Touching on that matter we were touching on, Jeeves ...' ''

---> '' 'Well, damn it, whereabouts in the garden did whoever merely informed you that he was in the garden merely inform you that he was?' ''

* "[[TheRailwaySeries He had six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler and a short stumpy dome.]]"

* ''TheBible''. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 1:27" (Why do you think MontyPython did this in the [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Holy Hand Grenade]] scene?)

* In ''{{Discworld}}'', a tourist misreads his Agatean-to-Morporkian translation guide, leading to such statements as:

* This was practically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein Gertrude Stein]]'s signature style:

** In the third book Bella tells us that vampires are part of a "clandestine world full of myths and monsters that existed secretly."
** At some point mentions Edward's "Relaxed calm".

** And ErnestHemingway retorted: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch".

* This is a problem with many translations of the {{Popol Vuh}}, since the original poetry relies on redundancy and parallelism as a poetic tool. However, this translates very badly to modern day prose, leading to sections such as:

** "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit":

* ''Henderson the Rain King'' by Saul Bellow: "In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too."

** ''Henderson the Rain King'' by Saul Bellow: "In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too."

---> '' 'Well, damn it, whereabouts in the garden did whoever merely informed you that he was in the garden merely inform you that he was?' ''

---> '' 'Well, damn it, whereabouts in the garden did whoever merely informed you that he was in the garden merely inform you that he was?' ''
* The Haggadah, the prayerbook used at the Jewish holiday of Passover, can get pretty bad at points. The first of these three quotes are also part of a rather lengthy segment alternating between short paragraphs and long paragraphs that reiterate each sentence of the short paragraph with a longer explanation, which also might qualify, and all come from the same paragraph.
--> And we cried unto the Eternal, the {{God}} of our fathers: as it is said, and it came to pass, after some time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed in consequence of the bondage, and they cried, and their complaint went up to {{God}}, in consequence of the bondage.
-->And [[{{God}} He]] saw our affliction: this denotes the separation from their wives, as it is said, and {{God}} saw the children of Israel, and {{God}} had knowledge of their affliction.
-->And our oppression: this denotes the severity employed, as it is said, And I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
-->Blessed art thou, [[{{God}} O Eternal, our God, King of the Universe. O God, thou art our Father, King Almighty, Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier]]: the Sanctifier of Jacob, our Pastor, the Shepherd of Israel; [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the beneficent King, who dealeth beneficently with all; for He hath been, is, and ever will be daily beneficent towards us.]]

---> '' 'Well, damn it, whereabouts in the garden did whoever merely informed you that he was in the garden merely inform you that he was?' ''

** "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit:

--> '' 'Touching on that matter we were touching on, Jeeves ...' ''

** "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit: 'Touching on that matter we were touching on, Jeeves ...'

---> [Thought]. 'Jeeves,' I said, '[repeat thought].'

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* ''TheInheritanceCycle''
--> ''"Sorry",Brom apologized''

* ''TheCatcherInTheRye'': Holden does this frequently, so much that eventually you'll do it too. [[VerbalTic You will, you really will.]]

* In the ''{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Ellimist Chronicles'', when Ellimist realizes Aguella's pheromoning at him, and wonders why him: "Aguella could have any male she wanted. She was beautiful, well formed, sturdy, intelligent, funny, beautiful, very beautiful. ''That was several too many 'beautifuls''', I said to myself."

** ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'', on the topic of anchorites:

** From the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men At Arms]]'':

* In StarWars: Death Star, Memah Roothes, the new cantina owner, and her bouncer are required to do two physical exam sessions. Memah cites this trope as the reason they have to.

* There is an R.L. Stine book in the ''Fear Street'' series called ''Final Grade''. The blurb on the back of the book reads "Lily is drawn into a nightmare she can't begin to control. Will her final grade be her last?" Um.. yes?

** Also, "Aro started to laugh. "Ha ha ha", he chuckled." from Twilight Book the Second.

* [[TheCatcherInTheRye Holden]] does this frequently, so much that eventually you'll do it too.
** [[VerbalTic You will, you really will.]]
* ''Fallen''by Thomas Sniegowski is absolutely ridiculous with this. One example, "I don't know" he said uncertainly. Made worse by the fact that he thanks the 'termineditor' in his foreword. One shudders to think what the book was like before she got to it.

* Because ancient tales were oral, many of the classics reuse the same descriptions over and over to help the story teller out. When listening or reading the Iliad, by the third ox sacrifice you are going "yes yes, we know how the ox is sacrificed and burnt and made to smell sweet, get on with the story."
* Averted in [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Nordic sagas]] "Seven Viking Romances". Heroes will boast about what they will do, before fulfilling it- bigger boast, bigger kudos. To avoid the skald having to repeat his story telling there will be lines like "eric said he would do x, y and z. So that's what he did.

* Averted in [[TheIcelandicSagas Nordic sagas]] "Seven Viking Romances". Heroes will boast about what they will do, before fulfilling it- bigger boast, bigger kudos. To avoid the skald having to repeat his story telling there will be lines like "eric said he would do x, y and z. So that's what he did.

* ''[[HarryPotter/{{Ptitlexgrkh7ma}} Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone]]'':

--> Oh, the grand old duke of York
--> He had ten thousand men
--> He marched them up to the top of the hill
--> And he marched them down again.
--> And when they were up, they were up,
--> And when they were down, they were down,
--> And when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down.

* An erotic novel called "[[http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/25/review-pleasure-2035-by-cameo-brown/#more-12281 Pleasure 2035]]", as well as having some truly... [[YouFailSexEdForever unusual sex scenes]], has this line.

* {{TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy}}. "Hey, have you any idea what these strange symbols are?" "I think they're just strange symbols of some kind," said Zaphod, hardly glancing back.

* From the [=~So Bad It's Good~=] oeuvre of the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe's {{Extruded Book Product}}s, in ''A 1000 Years On'' (Writing as John E. Muller):

** Most of Fanthorpe's [=~So Bad It's Good~=] work for BadgerBooks, in fact. He was being paid by the word, after all. Hence the popular UK SF scene LightBulbJoke: "How many Fanthorpe pseudonyms does it take to change a lightbulb, to replace it, to reinstate it, to substitute for it, to swap it, to exchange it, to renew it, to put another in its stead, to ..."

* In ''TheLorax'', the Once-ler describes knitting his first Thneed "with great skillful skill and with great speedy speed."