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Quotes from other [[Fictional Document|fictional]] books being used as an [[Epigraph]] or part of the [[Framing Device|frame]] of the story. They are not part of the text proper.
These quotes are always apposite, and often provide painless [[Exposition]], rather than relying on [[As You Know]]
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* Baron Bodissey's ''Life'' in [[Jack Vance]]'s Gaean Reach novels - it's a twelve volume long philosophical encyclopedia which Vance often quotes, at length, for use as chapter headings. The entries aren't always entirely relevant, but this being Vance, they're always delightful. In ''[[The Demon Princes]]'', there is also the criminal psychology manual ''The Demon Princes'' by Caril Carphen.
** Bodissey's omnipresence is later lampshaded; a character guesses that the latest [[Ice Cream Koan]] is from Bodissey, since he's said practically everything.
** Also quoted in ''[[The Demon Princes]]'' are several reviewers who make very hostile comments about the Baron. One expresses the desire to give Baron Bodissey a severe
* Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar from [[Mark Twain]]'s ''Pudd'nhead Wilson.''
* The ''Empire of Man'' series follows in Eddings' footsteps by having the book open with commentary from a biographer who is writing from a much later point after the events in the books. Some of the things the biographer says are quite important, especially the bits that show that {{spoiler|Roger never really shakes the reputation the [[Big Bad]] planted that he killed his family and drove his mother mad in order to force her to abdicate so that he could take over the Empire}}.
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* The whole ''[[Warcraft]]'' oeuvre, especially the trading card game, uses fictional quotes from various plot-important characters to tie the whole expanded universe together.
* Both playable races in ''O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base'' consider an ancient document called the Torumin their Bible, some parts of which are quotes in the game.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', the player occasionally finds parchments with fictional poems, stories, and legends throughout Thedas. These are logged into the game's
* ''[[Snatcher]]'' does this with a supercomputer that contains a lot of information about the game world.
* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', there are several books and newspapers that the player can read.
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