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It also had to be replaced, lest the Boomer-player’s imagination
wander and ask too many more questions, such as the ones conceming
the purpose and victims o f the real sacrifices which allegedly took place
centuries ago at the pyramids, or the relationship, if any, between the
colonialist bent o f the European conqueror and his definition o f savagery
when encountering such an event . . . if indeed the Europeans ever did
encounter such an event. Or whether these acts were any more savage
than Contemporary acts which involve an electric chair, or lethal
Chemicals, and unfortunate men whom the state executes, only to find
them innocent after the fact. In such ways a mind does tum, and such
reality has no place in a palace o f fantasy. It’s not surprising that Mayan
Magic had to be re