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These people prefer to say “[[no debt is due]]” on the supposition that this [[magic spell]] can have some spooky retrospective effect, banishing phantoms, re-rendering the fresco of time on which the great redeemer has already daubed an arrow, or some such thing.  
These people prefer to say “[[no debt is due]]” on the supposition that this [[magic spell]] can have some spooky retrospective effect, banishing phantoms, re-rendering the fresco of time on which the great redeemer has already daubed an arrow, or some such thing.  


What difference does it make, in point of practical fact? None at all.<ref>By a curious coincidence, “None at all” is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur Dent had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he usually claimed. — {{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}.</ref>
What difference does it make, in point of practical fact? None at all.