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You Must Know Nothing Before You Can Learn Something, And Be Empty Before You Can Be Filled. Is Not The Emptiness Of The Bowl What Makes It Useful? As For Laws, A Parrot Can Repeat Them Word For Word. Their Spirit Is Something Else Again. As For Governing, One Must First Be Lowest Before Being Highest.

...alas, Raising A Young Lady Is A Mystery Even Beyond An Enchanter's Skill.

After Seven Years Of Writing - And Working Many Jobs To Support My Family - I Finally Got Published.

And So They Lived Many Happy Years, And The Promised Tasks Were Accomplished. Yet Long Afterward, When All Had Passed Away Into Distant Memory, There Were Many Who Wondered Whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, And Their Companions Had Indeed Walked The Earth, Or Whether They Had Been No More Than Dreams In A Tale Set Down To Beguile Children. And, In Time, Only The Bards Knew The Truth Of It.

You Know How Chickens Are, Imagining The World Coming To An End One Moment, Then Pecking Corn The Next.