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rockmaninov :
I love when Dumas uses this in Monte Cristo so the readers would recognize Guiccioli as like a celebrity cameo without actually using her name
2026-06-15 21:27:03
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kait :
in my heart i believed it was because the author didnt feel like making up a name LMAO
2026-06-15 22:46:19
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Meghan Weaver :
I love it in Les Miserables. The novel reads almost like a detective novel and I think it’s interesting that the country towns are redacted but everywhere in Paris is very specific. Like Paris is so ubiquitous that you don’t need to redact
2026-06-15 23:36:33
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kuhlenkamp :
RIP Dostoyevsky, you would have loved found-footage horror
2026-06-16 13:58:45
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Dylan :
They do this a lot with dates. Like 19—
2026-06-16 18:22:15
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Aaron :
I think we now care much less about the pretense of realness and much more about narrative plausibility. Jane Eyre strikes some proper nouns but has the strangers who take her in coincidentally turn out to be her relatives, and you’d be hard pressed to find a modern book that does either
2026-06-15 23:05:20
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mia :
I noticed that a lot of classic books contain an explanation of why the book exists. It doesn't just exist as a fictional story with no explanation for why the main character is narrating their actions, there's always a justification that makes the book literally exist in its world. For example Frankenstein is written by the main character for his sister, Agnes Grey is written as a diary and Dracula is a punch of letters (I think). I find it really interesting because it solves the problem I have with first person narration. I hate it when the main character goes "I went to my house, which you will probably think is insane but I just had to do it" like who are they talking to why does the main character acknowledge the reader. But in classics it totally makes sense if it's letters to someone or a diary
2026-06-23 19:11:09
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liam 🪻 :
ive been getting into classics recently and the first time i saw this was “countess G—“ in monte cristo and it felt like a celeb cameo
2026-06-17 05:15:24
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Mott :
This started around 19--
2026-06-16 11:52:16
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phoebe 🇵🇸 :
in a lot of modern Japanese literature (in translation, idk about the original) place names will be stuff like M-- Prefecture! I thought it was to avoid being too specific and also not having to make up a place
2026-06-16 14:30:00
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Marillenbaum :
Everyone was doing Blair Witch before it was Blair Witch
2026-06-17 01:18:10
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Birdieliveslovely :
YES. I asked my high school teacher 15 years ago and never got an answer 😭
2026-06-15 22:10:25
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emily :
jane austen does this fairly often! i always thought hers was about being able to fill in town names for yourself - as if the romance could happen to you or someone near you ! so cool
2026-07-11 00:13:56
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Lauren 🕯️ :
One of my favorite features of Les Miserables- subtle reminders that there is indeed a narrator
2026-06-15 22:28:13
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faith :
Omg yes I have wondered
2026-06-15 23:29:21
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🎄🎄 :
I always read it as “Mr so and so” or something similar
2026-06-16 18:41:50
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that was horrifying :
Okay but did anyone else read multiple editions of a book and have their mind blown when one of them revealed what the — represented?
2026-06-15 23:25:23
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Niamh 💕 :
i still see it with years in some media. instead of dating the story they’ll use 20XX to make it more timeless
2026-06-16 11:59:58
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ashley :
Oh!! This clarifies a reference to this approach in Nona the Ninth that I wasn’t privy to before. Let’s do more of this in the modern era
2026-06-16 01:05:12
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LC | nearlynoseblind :
Why yes I *have* - THANK you.
2026-06-16 01:36:44
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✨Linds✨ :
If my novel is organized as found writings, and the ending calls that out, can I use this?
2026-06-15 22:38:45
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paopeace172 :
I had mostly noticed it with the names of what I could only assume were real life people that give a sense of realism to the novel. My thought was always that the author didn’t want to get in trouble for name dropping, but assumed that the contemporary reader would get it. And sometimes I’m sitting there like “okay, but *I* don’t get it, dude! 😭“
2026-06-16 02:20:39
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user9754690511794 :
Agatha Christie does this often
2026-06-15 20:57:53
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Who cares :
Because it makes it difficult to read. Oh mr. —- went to B—— and came back with a man servent? Like what?
2026-06-16 01:56:52
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