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Three wishes? What’s the catch?

What's the catch?

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Deal with a Genie

In popular literature, genies are trouble. They always set us up to fail after the tricksy trio of troubled desires condemns us to an obscure and miserable fate—shudder. You'd think we'd learn.Oh boy, here's the lamp. There's the genie in the weird costume. As the wishes are granted, the genie makes weird gestures and mumbles …

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Genie

Damn! I hate genie stories. First of all, they all assume that genies have integrity issues. The genie is always trying to trick you into some idiotic mistake of syntax or grammar that sends you off on some spooktacular journey. I think that most of the bad feelings are an apparent effort to transfer or project our own ethical …

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