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[Instrumental version of "Making Time" by The Creation]
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it is a commonly held misconception that with the dawning of the 21st century and a
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burgeoning new age of science, that magic has been chased out of our lives,
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excised with surgical precision from our world as our awareness of the universe
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expands. This is false. There are plenty of minor miracles lurking in the shadows.
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For example, there exists in a sleepy house in Bristol an older woman who does
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the most exquisite embroidery, many of which has the funny quality of appearing
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to predict with great accuracy the results of many minor league football
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matches. The other pieces are of various stray cats in the neighborhood. She is quite
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good. This is not a story about minor miracles, though. It is a story about a
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series of improbabilities, inconceivable shenanigans, and events that stretch the
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limits of belief. It is a story about magic, at least, in part. This is Domovoi
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Butler. He works for Artemis Fowl. The second. Butler hasn't been paid in months —
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currently, he has his hands full with trying to raise his boss after a
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dubiously legal business deal resulted in the boy's father being lost at sea,
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presumed dead by everyone with a healthy dose of common sense.
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Artemis Fowl the second is 12. He fully believes that his father is alive,
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partly because he doesn't want to believe he is functionally an orphan, and
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partly because he's not used to the things he wants to believe in turning
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out not to be true. The second reason is influenced by the fact he is a genius,
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and the first is influenced by the fact he is, as previously stated, 12 years of
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age. In the past few weeks, they've traveled to Egypt, Vietnam, and various
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parts of Germany. Tonight they will make their way to an old oak tree by a river
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bend just outside of South Dublin. It will be the culmination of all of
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Artemis's research. Remember the earlier remarks about minor miracles? Artemis Fowl
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the second's father is presumed dead. His mother is in the middle of an extended
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psychic break following the sinking of the Fowl Star. He doesn't need a minor
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miracle.
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He needs a rather big one.
