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Re: Cants

From:Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 1:54
Peter Bleackley wrote:

Sounds a bit like Douglas Adams' "SEP field", which causes the mind to
dismiss something as "Somebody Else's Problem" and edit it out of
perception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEP_field

M

>Interesting turn of phrase. "Hide in plain sight" is a very common spell >used by the wizards of Huna (the contemporary speakers/preservers of >Khangaþyagon). It makes whatever it is cast on not invisible, but very >ignorable. Anyone but the caster who looks at it will suffer mind-blindness >and not notice it, although another wizard may be aware of the presence of >magical effects. The caster may break the spell by deliberately drawing >attention to the hidden object, whereupon the person it has been revealed >to will experience a feeling of "Oh, it was right under my nose."

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Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>