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[–] zerakith@lemmy.ml 87 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This is from The Prestige by Christopher Priest in case any one wonders. It's a good book!

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the context. I've seen this at least two other times and no one mentioned it.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Were the remaining pages indeed blank?

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[–] zerakith@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Took me a while to dig out my copy but very much not. The next sections of the diary are:

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

Aww. Disappointed.

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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Is that the same story as the movie by the same name?

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[–] zerakith@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

It is. I liked the film but they reworked some elements of it. I don't think it does the book justice.

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