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160. Coward

The Allusionist

CHAPTER

Is There a Magic Bullet?

In the course of writing coward and in dealing with his anxiety for so many years, tim claire read a thousand academic papers about anxiety. He talked to many people who work in different fields related to it and practise various treatments. A lot of them told him there's no magic bullet - but that phrase became a cliche. So i was like, silver bullets are used to kill werwolfes. Magic Bullet is something that selectively kills off the thing you want to kill off, without killing off anything else. I believe this idea of creating some kind of cure or chemical can just take out the pathological cells,. Just kill off the invader in the body, and not kill off the

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