My Friend Mr. Leakey - J.B.S. Haldane

Mr Leakey is a Wizard. No, stop thinking Harry Potter and stop thinking dude in a cloak with a pointy hat too. Mr Leakey is a proper Wizard - he knows magic words, he can conjure stuff out of thin air (no fakery with smoke or mirrors involved unlike your Blaines or Copperfields) and he can turn people into things (he'll even turn them back into people if they truly deserve it), he's just not very good at modern life. And thats how he meets the teller of his story who saves him from a near death experience (almost getting run over by a car), Mr Leakey is so grateful he invites the man to dinner at his house and thats where we learn more about Mr ...  Read the complete review

"Mr Leakey turned over the pages and read out a spell. Then he took my left foot, shoe and all, and unscrewed it. It didn't hurt a bit, though it felt funny. It unscrewed just above the ankle. It didn't bleed at all, and I could see the two bones as he took the foot off. He took a golden thing like a motor tyre pump and squirted something out of it into the stump of my foot. I felt a nice warm feeling going up my leg into me. Then he screwed my foot on again. I could still see the join, but he said another spell, and my leg looked just as it had done before." Oops. Sorry. I got carried away. Do you like that? I like that. No, I LOVE that. ...  Read the complete review