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Epilogue
spending habits, which Magnus must have detected and depended
upon to keep me on the hook for the next assignment; but he could
not predict the effect on me of watching people lurch from the
existing mess of their lives to an even more calamitous denouement
because of my interference.
And that was humbling: I did not know that I had been on the
yellow brick road to Oz, a con man in need of a conscience. It was
not the most pleasurable gift in the world and Al Magnus was no
wizard. He was the patron saint of invention, of which the cleverest
and most dangerous is that of the self.
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