Thursday, September 10, 2009

Don't You Believe?

"Magic," she said. "Don't you believe in magic?"
He inhaled tobacco smoke, and breathed it out in mystic calm.
"No," he said.
"But you think it works."
He said nothing.
-- John Crowley, Love & Sleep

[Woodcut of astrologer by Jorg Breu.]

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