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The Project Gutenberg EBook of No Great Magic, by Fritz Reuter Leiber This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: No Great Magic Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23162] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO GREAT MAGIC *** Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | | This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction, | | December 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any | | evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication | | was renewed. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * [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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