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From: Warp
Date: 11 Dec 2010 05:26:34
Message: <4d0351d9@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> > Not really. The books were amazingly popular before the movies. 

> My theory is that she discovered how to do *actual* magic, and used it to 
> make tons of money and fame by writing best-selling books about fake magic, 
> just to distract the masses.

  It reminds me of the "corollary" to Clarke's third law of prediction:

  "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."

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                                                          - Warp


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