07/02/2026 08:48

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I heard Jason's voice, as though it were coming from far away. I was getting ready to go out to a screening, when the phone rang, and a voice said, “Youdon’t know me, man, and it isn’t important, but you ought to turn to Channel 11 right now. “HE WHO USES THE SWORD OF PARMAGON WILL HAVESTRENGTH AND KNOWLEDGE BEYOND HIS OWN,” it said. They also revealsomething of his great fondness for the work of writers such as Thurber, Leacock and De Vries, Lafferty,Wodehouse and Cuppy.

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