Camacan
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Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 5th 2011 at 7:10:33 PM
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This example needs a work name, linked to our page if we have one. Work names are given in italics.
- There's a chapter book aimed toward younger audiences that is based off the true story of a dog in Japan that died waiting for its dead master for years at a train station. The dog dies after ten years, and one of the workers states that he believes the train that arrives at the time of his death is a soul train.
Camacan
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Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 5th 2011 at 7:07:10 PM
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Examples should be written as separate entries. Chaining them causes problems: important details get left out and misconceptions arise. Also, since this is a wiki the example you are referring to may move.
Finally, some readers prefer to dip in and out of the examples section; separate entries help this. This example needs to be re-written as an independent entry along the lines of How To Write An Example.
- Something similar was done decades earlier in Tom Holt's Ye Gods!, which is a funnier but less coherent book along the same lines.
- Tom Holt steals a number of jokes from 1920s short story author John Collier. That was one of them.
- Something similar was done decades earlier in Tom Holt's Ye Gods!, which is a funnier but less coherent book along the same lines.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Named for a work
, started by shimaspawn on Apr 5th 2011 at 7:06:28 PM
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