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To show how credulous some folks are, I have a friend who was adamantly convinced of the veracity of the book, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. Admittedly, it was a very dry joke, but tons of people fell for the very thick bibliography and footnotes and references (all fictitious) at the end of the book.

For some reason, she needed this book to be true so badly that she insisted there were many other people that she knew who had worked with people who had worked with painting cats...