"Simon Hawke - Wizard 7 - The Wizard of Camelot" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hawke Simon)

all people possess in equal measure, but everyone possesses the latent
faculty,
at least to some degree."

"I wouldn't know," I said. "In all my life, I've never met anyone like that.
That is, not till I met you."

"Haven't you?" he said. "Chances are you have experienced your own latent
magical potential without even realizing it. Consider, have you ever had a
sense
or an impression for which you had no rational explanation, such as seeing a
place for the very first time, yet somehow feeling as if you had been there
before?''

"Well, yes," I admitted, "but that's not at all uncommon. It's known as deja
vu,
and there's a perfectly logical explanation for it."

Merlin raised his eyebrows. "Is there, indeed? I would very much like to hear
it."

"Frankly, I'm not really an expert at this sort of thing," I said, "but the
accepted scientific theory is that it's actually a sort of cerebral short
circuit. What happens is that you perceive or experience something in the
instant that it actually occurs, and your mind registers the event as your
senses supply the information to your brain, only a sort of sensory loop
occurs,
an error in data input, and the perception is registered not once, but twice.
As
a result, you experience the sense of deja vu, of having already seen
something
before, and in a manner of speaking, you have. Your mind has actually
perceived
the same thing twice in the same instant."

"Fascinating," Merlin said. "And you believe this?"

"It seems a logical explanation,'' I replied.

"Ah. I see. And any explanation that does not seem logical is not to be
considered, I suppose."

"Well, why should it be, if it's illogical?"

"Because it might very well be true," Merlin replied, "as I believe I
demonstrated to your daughters' satisfaction."

"Well... I certainly can't argue with that," I was forced to admit. "I
actually
saw them floating in midaii; though I can still scarcely believe it. Either