Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Part of the Magic is the Mystery

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"What makes it magic? ... Magic can't be defined, can it? Or it loses what makes it magic. ... Part of the magic is the mystery , ...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

22 (and counting) Definitions of Magic

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Here are twenty-two (and counting) thought-provoking definitions of magic , curated by The Conjurer: http://magicandconjuring.blogspot.com/s...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Fiction / Magic

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Vladimir Nabokov's word for fiction was magic , and he called the library "that citadel of illusion" ( New York Times ).
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Magic and Literature are the Same Thing

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"Oddly, alchemy seems to work with texts in just the same way as it is meant to work with matter . . . Titles, plots, all of the elemen...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Magic and Erudition

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Magic and erudition in alliance Opened the door to every mystery. —Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game , translated by Richard and Clara Wins...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Simple Faith in a Word

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"I speak of magic advisedly, for in a great deal of what has been said and written there is more of simple faith in a word or a vague ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Magic as the Essence of All the Arts

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"Some speak of magic aspiring to be art, but it is really art that aspires to be magic. Magic is the highest art, pure art, art's ...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Magic Need Not Be Spoken

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"I did not speak of magic; it need not be spoken to occur." —Gregory G. Bolich, 12 Magic Wands
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Love and Magic

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" Love is magic , Giordano Bruno said; magic is love . The magician and the lover are both venatores animarum , hunters of souls; by e...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Don't You Believe?

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"Magic," she said. "Don't you believe in magic?" He inhaled tobacco smoke, and breathed it out in mystic calm. ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Magic: A Hard Word to Say Out Loud

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"'Magic is sort of a hard word to say out loud, I think." "Yes?" "It is if you mean it. A little s...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Words Were Originally Magic

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Photo by pheezy .
Friday, July 10, 2009

Magic, Science, and Religion

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"He began to think that even though magic, and science, and religion did not all mean the same thing , they all meant in the same way ....
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Monday, May 25, 2009

The Whole History of Magic

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"If we wish to sum up the whole history of magic in a sentence, we may say that men first regarded magic as natural, then as marvelous,...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Magic Everywhere

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Martha Brockenbrough's daughter complained that "There' s no magic in this land. It's all in the fairytale land. This isn...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Word Magic

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"The word magic still exists and will exist as long as man is a human being; for if evolution is a fact there will always be effects ...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Magic via Imagination

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"The first step into magic is the human imagination. The world of the mind and the world of matter are both real, but in different ways...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

One Word: That's Magic

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Professional magician John W. LeBlanc notes that there are “untold numbers of anecdotes told by professional performers who found that just ...
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