There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are
constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They
wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing
nothing and hearing nothing.
-- H. L. Mencken
Wizards are constantly subject to negative publicity. A case in point. One
elderly wizard of my acquaintance, whenever he was bothered by unexpected
guests, would immediately cast one of three spells upon them, either turning
them to stone, transforming them into segmented worms, or blasting them
entirely out of the kingdom....
