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Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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Diana Wynne Jones
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Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1934 to 2011; Wikidata Q236829, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236829 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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