"Maybe I'd better call a halt to the journal for a bit. Until something crops up, that is, which it hopefully won't for a couple of decades. In the meantime: farewell, enjoy your futile lives, etc. This is Bartimaeus, care of The Other Place, signing off."

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“A better plan would be to head straight for Bart's Guide to London, since that's hugely entertaining and witty, i.e. written by me.”

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“The boy did the preliminaries, sealing the circles, erecting the bonds. Now we were all subject to the rules of the summoning. But then he stopped. He did not progress. The woman looked at him furiously. "I've forgotten it," he said.”

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“Woken up, have you?" the woman said. Her voice was like broken glass in an ice bucket.†”

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