Robert Ramsay
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Wizard, Author, Lyricist and Voiceover. Will word for food.
Book: 'The Engineering of Coincidence' https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B0834BLHNS
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Robert Ramsay
@robertramsay.org
· Oct 18
The Engineering of Coincidence: a scientific explanation of magic
Shared via Kindle. Description: <p><i>“Magic is the engineering of coincidence”</i></p><p>Fireballs. Wands. Turning people into frogs. Everyone knows that wizards like Harry Potter are fictional. But ...
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the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
(It wasn't until Jeff and Ann VanderMeer were working on their anthology The Weird that I learned that "onions" is a typo. Either Jeff or Ann mentioned to me that Barker asked them to fix the typo that had haunted the story in countless reprintings, incl in their own earlier antho The New Weird.)
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