[HPforGrownups] A TRANSCRIPT FROM WIZARD RADIO

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 5816


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Subject: [HPforGrownups] A TRANSCRIPT FROM WIZARD RADIO


> ==================
> advertisement
> [The sounds of The Quidditch world cup can be heard in the background]
>
My Subjunctive
> Spyscope can show me what the present would be like if things were
> different, I know what the game would have been like if it had been
> raining, or snowing, or what would have happened if Krum were playing
> Quidditch in a wedding dress.

The Contrafactus dialogue of Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach has
the characters (The Tortoise, Achilles, Crab and Sloth) watching a football
game on a channel that offers a Subjunctive instant replay ("How would that
last play have looked if the game had been baseball instead of football?"

    - CMC