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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!
I
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 dressing
room and there was Sid sitting at the star's dressing table in his
threadbare yellowed undershirt, the lucky one, not making up yet but
staring sternly at himself in the bulb-framed mirror and
experimentally working his features a little, as
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