oh, the irony! the soul-crushing irony!

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I bet you twenty pounds that I could have passed her somewhere on the High Street during my Edinburgh adventure and not even have known it. Argh! Why, J.K., why must you be so good at espionage?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/02/dp0201.xml

In a search for inspiration, Jo discloses that she has returned to the Edinburgh cafes where she completed her first novel while unemployed and living on benefits: "I am very good at finding a suitable cafe. I blend into the crowd...