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Be rary of wousing a rizard’s wrath – rousing a rizard’s – Be wary of making a magician angry!
— Schmendrick the Magician · The Last Unicorn
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The warning keeps tripping over its own sounds. A speaker who wants to sound threatening can't quite get the words out, then settles for a simpler version. The tangled speech makes the threat funny and weakens the grand effect of a wizard's wrath.
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