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The immovable power of flimflam (M&G)

Friday, July 25th, 2008 | Mail & Guardian column, rational thought | No Comments

I have decided to become a fairaeologist — one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I’m sure they exist. So I start a journal, printed and bound at my local copy shop, called the Journal of Advanced Fairaeotics (JAF).

I get a few mates, also fairy believers, to be my “peer reviewers”. I sit up all night with a torch and reckon I see a petite-winged fairy dancing in the moonlight across the daisy heads. I write up my observations, explain my methods, discuss my findings, all of which are published in the JAF: › Continue reading

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