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Ordinary Miracles
	by Kotetsu

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Author's Notes








Important Disclaimer:  Aziraphale, Crowley, and _Good Omens_ are created 
and copyrighted by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.  This is a fanfic, 
intended only in the spirit of fun.  The following work of fanfiction is 
only to be archived and "published" in a non-profit, non-commercial, freely 
accessible web site.  However, any and all original characters and concepts 
contained within this work are copyrighted by me, Kotetsu.  Stealing and 
plagiarism will not be tolerated. Thank you.

If you wish to archive this fic on a website, please contact me for 
permission first.  You can reach me at webmistressNOSPAM@boukenshin.net.  
Remove the "NOSPAM" from my email address.

Comments?  Criticism?  Praise?  Please send feedback to 
webmistressNOSPAM@boukenshin.net!

And now, for some other important items of business:

1) Stealing an idea from the Manga Entertainment release of the English-
Japanese bilingual  _Read or Die_  DVD, each chapter of this fanfic is 
subtitled with the cite of a book, complete with Library of Congress code 
number.  (In the  _Read or Die_  DVD, each chapter stop was titled with the 
cite of a book, in a similar fashion.)  I wanted the list of chapters to 
ultimately end up looking like a pile of books that could be construed as 
Aziraphale's current summer reading, including a few titles that he 
probably keeps hidden under the bed and wants nobody to find out that he 
actually reads.  I realize that the Library of Congress classification 
system is mostly specific to the U.S., but as far as aesthetic 
considerations are concerned, an LoC code looks a lot more impressive than 
a Dewey Decimal code. ;)  Thus, I stuck with the LoC system.

2) As far as this fic is concerned, many of the ideas about how physics 
works in the fictional world I constructed here, the nature of reality, and 
the nature of miracles, are shamelessly inspired by one of my all-time 
favorite manga-ka, Kosuke Fujishima, with many homages owed to Stephen King, 
and to several other scientists and writers, including Edwin Abbot (author 
of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions), Albert Einstein (relative space, 
and time as a dimension), and Richard Feynman (for his variations on universal 
superstring theory).  

Tons of love and thanks is owed to the amazing and wonderful Daegaer, who 
provided tons of feedback for the first half of the fic, and then ended up
somehow volunteering herself as a beta-reader and a proofreader, and who 
helped me correct many of my Americanisms with proper British English.  ^_^

Much love,
Kotetsu
9/09/03
and 10/11/03