P of which to pull him, and no concealed rabbit or even partially becoming rabbit who emerges." -- Arthur W. Lindsley, Classical Apologetics (1984) • Burst of light "With a little poof of light . . ." -- Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music (200 ) "Without even a poof or a clap of thunder -- just appeared." -- Michael Kurland, The Rite Stuff (2004) • Cleavage "'I don't need wool stuffing to give me -- ' Mary broke off, too embarrassed to say the words. She waved her hands at her chest. ' -- Poof.' . . . Obviously, he didn't mind that she didn't have 'poof.'" -- Cathy Maxwell, The Wedding Wager (2001) • Illusion "How deep is the extent of the burial of mankind in his ignorance on this poof called earth." -- Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma (1956) • Instantly, suddenly "One day I'm the elf next door and then poof I'm a river." -- Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings (1969) "Poof! . . . all at once as if a magician had snapped his fingers." -- Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge (1995) "While things didn't go 'poof ' and change in an instant . . ." -- Hank Bordowitz, Bad Moon Rising (1998) "What I feel is poof, it's gone, or poof, it's back." -- Gertrude Blanck, Ego Psychology II (1979) • Like magic "'Poof.' 'Yeah. Like magic.'" -- Mike Stewart, Dog Island (2002) "Imagine a building supply warehouse that is never out of stock on any item, for the simple reason that the owner is a magician. If he runs out of rain gutters, he simply takes some scraps of lumber or a handful of nails and -- poof! -- turns them into the precise rain gutter that you require." -- Stephen Cherniske, The Metabolic Plan (200 ) "A thing is just a thing until you have the story that goes with it. With out the story, there's nothing to hold on to, nothing to relate this mysterious new thing to who you are -- you know, to make it a part of your own history. So if you're like me, you make something up and the funny thing is, lots of times, once you tell the story, it comes true. Not poof, hocus-pocus, magic it comes true, but sure, why not, and after it gets repeated often enough, you and everybody else end up believing it." -- Charles de Lint, Moonlight and Vines (1999) "A blink of an eye and, poof! Like magic." -- Jonathan R. Cash, The Age of the Antichrist (2000) "Imagine for a moment a magician on a stage. At the crucial moment of the trick, a puff of smoke appears, and poof -- the rabbit appears, the assistant is cut in two, or the box begins to levitate." -- LearningExpress, GMAT Exam Success in Only 4 Steps (200 ) "As you look closely at the still life on the table then step back slowly, poof! it becomes solid form. Magic? Yes, the painter is the magician." -- Donald Stanley Vogel, Memories and Images (2000)