04-21-2008, 11:38 PM
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Shade with a Blade
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: A Rainy Night In Soho
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Originally Posted by alatar
Someone help me here...there's a scene in some fantasy book where an older wizard is teaching a young and thirsty apprentice, and says something like, "Sure, I could make it rain here, but that would take water from a place that truly needed it." The author's point, I think, was to be that one did not use magic in a juvenile fashion. Power, or the use of, has consequences.
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Sounds like "A Wizard of Earthsea", if you ask me.
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