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She knew exactly what she wanted to do--it lay in front of her
eyes. The staff mustn't come flying through the air, wrecking the barge and
drawing attention to itself. All she wanted, she told herself, was for there to
be a slight change in the way the world was organized. It shouldn't be a world
where the staff was in the fleeces [on the barge], it should be a world where it
was in her hand. A tiny change, an infinitesimal alteration in the Way Things
Were.
If Esk had been properly trained in wizardry she would have known that this was
impossible. All wizards knew how to move things about, starting with protons and
working upward, but the important thing about moving something from A to Z,
according to basic physics, was that at some point it should pass through the
rest of the alphabet. The only way one could cause something to vanish at A and
appear at Z would be to shuffle the whole of Reality sideways. The problems this
would cause didn't bear thinking about.
Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital
ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path
of the bicycle of history.