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== In popular culture == * In his poem ''Defenestration'', [[Richard Percival Lister|R. P. Lister]] wrote with amusement about the creation of so exalted a word for so basic a concept. The poem narrates the thoughts of a philosopher undergoing defenestration. As he falls, the philosopher considers why there should be a particular word for the experience, when many equally simple concepts do not have specific names. In an evidently ironic commentary on the word, Lister has the philosopher summarize his thoughts with, "I concluded that the incidence of logodaedaly was purely [[Wiktionary:adventitious|adventitious]]."<ref>Liser, R. P. ''Defenestration''; [[The New Yorker]], 16 September 1956.</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-first=J. M.|editor-last=Cohen|title=Yet more comic and curious verse|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1959}}{{page needed|date=July 2020}}</ref> * There is a range of hacker witticisms referring to "defenestration". For example, the term is sometimes used humorously among [[Linux]] users to describe the act of removing [[Microsoft Windows]] from a computer.<ref>{{cite book |first=Eric S. |last=Raymond |title=The New Hacker's Dictionary |publisher=MIT Press |date=1996 |isbn=978-0-262-68092-9 |page=147}}</ref> * The indie video game developer Suspicious Developments has released three games (''[[Gunpoint (video game)|Gunpoint]]'', ''[[Heat Signature (video game)|Heat Signature]]'', and ''[[Tactical Breach Wizards]]'') with a focus on throwing enemies out of windows. After releasing Tactical Breach Wizards in 2024, the developers have started referring to these three games as their "Defenestration Trilogy".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Jarrett |title=Tactical Breach Wizards Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/tactical-breach-wizards-review |website=IGN |publisher=IGN Entertainment, Inc. |access-date=29 August 2024|date=19 August 2024}}</ref>
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