A broad example would be The Things They Carried, the novel itself. Simply because no one, in Truth Lies and Lit, was in the Vietnam War so, therefore, can not Know it. We have merely been informed of its occurrence, just so that We Might understand the Gravity of its consequence. however, Through gaining knowledge of This war We gain the ability to make inferences, that remain ours. By recognizing the Secondary nature of our educated guesses, or "claiming our claims" we are also able to recognize what we cannot Know. This notion coveys a distant relationship between our literal selves and the material. In other words, the literal, you reading about something that, the literal, you have never experienced displaces, the literal, you, while simultaneously engaging you, the reader, and allows you, the reader, to experience the event with a heightened awareness of the context, otherwise unobtainable.
I think I can see what you are trying to evoke here, but an explicit example from one or two of the texts we've read thus far this semester would help to illustrate your discussion here to its greatest effect.
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