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That is from a written work, though. Dave Barry wrote one newspaper column where he made fun of Neil Diamond's songs, then he got a bunch of angry letters from Neil Diamond fans. Then in a followup column, he talked about the angry letters he got, and that "blah blah blah" summary is a quote from said followup column.
I didn't write any of that.
Alright, thank you for your feedback. I'll leave it be, but I'm keeping this query open for now just in case.
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"I'm wondering if it should be an example in the first place if it's not about a fictional/narrative-driven media."
Better places to ask this type of question (whether something in a work is a valid example of a trope) are the Trope Talk forum
in general and the Is this an example? thread in particular.
I'm alphabetising Blah, Blah, Blah and I'm unsure how to sort this example:
- Dave Barry, after writing a column complaining about Neil Diamond's songs, in particular a Painful Rhyme in "I Am, I Said," received a great deal of hate mail from irate Neil Diamond fans, which he condensed into this all-purpose letter incorporating most of what they were fuming about:
Dear Pukenose:
Just who the hell do you think you are to blah blah a great artist like Neil blah more than twenty gold records blah blah how many gold records do YOU have, you scumsucking wad of blah I personally have attended 1,794 of Neil's concerts blah blah What about "Love on the Rocks," huh? What about "Cracklin' Rosie"? blah blah If you had ONE TENTH of the talent blah blah so I listened to "Heart Light" forty times in a row and the next day the cyst was GONE and the doctor said he had never seen such a rapid blah blah What about "Play Me"? What about "Song Sung Blah"? Cancel my subscription, if I have one.It's in the Literature folder, but instead of the usual fashion of examples saying "this is an example that occurs in a work", it reads to me as "this is an example in a writer's critique of another work". The best way I can think of alphabetising this is by author surname, but I'm wondering if it should be an example in the first place if it's not about a fictional/narrative-driven media.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.
Edited by BlackFaithStar