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No Great Magic, by Fritz Reuter Leiber
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Title: No Great Magic
Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber
Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23162]
Language: English
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[Illustration]
NO GREAT MAGIC
by FRITZ LEIBER
ILLUSTRATED BY NODEL
The troupers of the Big Time lack no art to sway a crowd-- or to change all history!
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To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Few are wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start. --Graves
I dipped through the filmy curtain into the boys' half of the dres