The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?
Edit: auto correct on ‘someone’
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When used casually, it is like a recursive program, it calls itself. So, a book about a book would be ‘meta’.
Some people will refer to it for something like…some people will know who the bad guy is in art and film in the first 15 minutes. You ask, how do you know? They respond, “We have been introduced to X number of characters, we know for sure it can’t be these people, we haven’t been introduced to anyone else and doing so after this point would be a deus ex machina, therefore the bad guy has to be *this* character.” That would be meta, you are using more information to whittle down the bad guy than the characters get (the police can’t finger the murderer based on who we know at the end of Act I) but, you aren’t a character in the movie/book/tv show so you can do whatever you want.
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