This sounds like a generalization of H.G. Wells's "only one
impossible thing" rule for science fiction. Which rather makes
sense, since SF can be construed as a particularly
obsessive-compulsive subgenre of fantasy. (And of course most other
fiction ditto, only lazier.)
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