Origami *in* literature?

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Origami *in* literature?

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When I was a chess fiend, I had a lot of fun finding instances of chess in non-chess oriented literature, particularly ficton (naturally, Nabokov is rife with such references). There are quite a few books and stories that revolve around the game.

That got me to thinking: have any of you come across origami references in literature other than origami-oriented publications?
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Re: Origami *in* literature?

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This question made me curious, so I started poking around. I found a nice list:
http://www.origamisources.com/origami_s ... iction.htm

I've also seen a couple of kids' books called The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back! by Tom Angleberger. The origami models are central to the plots. Our teacher read us Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr during grade school lunchtime while our class was folding cranes to send to the memorial (so. many. cranes...). There are other books, stories, poems, and songs about Sadako Sasaki as well.

I occasionally see books with "Origami" in the title which don't necessarily seem to have anything to do with paper-folding. Examples: a manga series called Origami Moon, a volume of a comic called Cages by Dave McKean titled "Time and Origami" (I would say there is too much of the second and not enough of the first), and a volume of modern poetry called Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire, by Diane Ackerman. (I fear for these bridges.)

Some poetry that concerns or references origami can be found at these sites:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/search/?q=origami
http://www.poemhunter.com/search/defaul ... ?q=origami
http://www.poets.org/search.php/fs/1/pr ... mThemeID/0
http://www.oriland.com/myoriland/poetry/poems2002.asp
http://library.thinkquest.org/5402/poems.html

An example of literature in origami: http://www.origamipoems.com/

While not origami, these are very good paper sculptures: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/ ... he-library
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