I wrote this essay some years ago. I still think it is interesting, and besides it has something to do with my remarks (to follow) about JK Rowling.

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To get the poison out of my computer, I have gone for the nuclear option: destroy every affected file that could not be restored, followed by a complete new set-up of the whole Windows system. Unfortunately, even though I managed to get rid of the more troublesome viri (that is the Latin plural for virus), there still is alien material in the ( Read more... )