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...According to family lore, a lack of beds propelled Fitzgerald into the baking business...
...prove so far is all that is true. At the beginning of the 20th century, doctors and researchers surely looked back at the beginning of the 19th and smiled at how primitive "medical science" had been. A century from now, we may look back at today's body of lore with the same condescension...
...prove so far is all that is true. At the beginning of the 20th century, doctors and researchers surely looked back at the beginning of the 19th and smiled at how primitive "medical science" had been. A century from now, we may look back at today's body of lore with the same condescension...
...heart attacks or the bypass operations afterward that for some reason often leave the patient prone to depression? It seems an odd emotional logic to become depressed after having been given new piping and a new lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary-artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery damages the memory. Mine was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason...
Neither of these cleverly factitious offerings, both of course written by Rowling, will make much sense to those not already steeped in Potter lore. But if the books have only a cult appeal, that cult happens to be the most populous one in the history of commercial publishing. The whopping sales that seem certain to follow will buy more than entertainment; Rowling has earmarked her share of the proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief U.K., a British charity devoted to children...