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258-259: Tom’s “cardinal events”/hinge soliloquy. Another 9-11 reference.

”Well, how many wizards have you known?” This is Dairine, so technically, she created an entire race of them.

Reading this book (pub. 2003), the whiffs of post-911 are detectable. Of course, since that's not specified in the text, they feel congruent to our brutal present. "Interesting times?" "Interesting times. The world isn't quite what it used to be, lately..." "Most of us have noticed."