Soul Music - Forget

Lady Sarah seemed to have something boiling in her mind. 'Look, that horse didn't really stand in mid-air, did it?' she demanded. 'Horses can't do that!'

'Then it couldn't have done it,' said Susan. 'Hang time,' said Gloria. 'That's all it was. Hang time. Like in basketball. Bound to be something like that.'

'Yes.'

'That's all it was.'

'Yes.'

The human mind has a remarkable ability to heal. So have the trollish and dwarfish minds. Susan looked at them in frank amazement. They'd all seen a horse stand on the air. And now they had carefully pushed it somewhere in their memories and broken off the key in the lock.

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Soul Music - p40