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Re: H. G. Wells
Posted By: Marvin, on host 206.145.112.236
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000, at 11:02:13
In Reply To: Re: H. G. Wells posted by Grishny on Wednesday, September 20, 2000, at 11:00:05:

> > The Man Who Could Work Miracles- Another good story. A man is somehow given the power to make anything happen. Whether it be breakfast or transporting a man to Hades, there is nothing this man can't do. But this man almost destroys the whole planet in the process.
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> I believe I've read this one. Is this the story where the fellow starts out a skeptic? He's sitting in a bar with his friends explaining to them that there's no such thing as miracles, and then he performs one entirely by accident?
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> As I recall, the way it ended
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> [SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY READ THE STORY!]
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> was with his last miracle, with which he restored the world back to the way it was, erased everyone's memories of the entire sequence of events (including his own), and also made it impossible for him to perform miracles anymore. Weird stuff.
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> Gri"it happened to me too, you just don't remember it..."shny

Yep, that be the one.

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