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"Are the books... Are they magic?"
Her grandfather had frowned.
"Child, all books are magic. Just think," he said, "about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis on what they read in books. They believe in "facts" just because they are written down. They decide to adopt political systems, to travel to one place rather than another, to give up their job and go on a great adventure, to love or to hate. All books have tremendous power. And power is magic."