I am completely, absolutely, one hundred percent certain that magic is real. It is too fantastic and remarkable a concept, at least as it is shaped in my head, to have been forged without some sort of concrete root and frequent contemporary affirmation. I have seen the impact that words and thoughts can have on physical realities--who is to say that humans are the only ones listening? That the material world cannot comprehend language in some wildly bizarre and largely inexplicable fashion? I think that the anti-magic lobby is unbearably naive.
I'm going to try writing a definition here: Magic is the manifestation of a monopoly on power that was not obtained through clearly articulable* means.
Magic is what changes lead to gold, and horses to unicorns.
All of these words ring hollow: I know it. Though... I feel it in my bones! The world has magic, and I know this for the same reason as some people believe in god and some people believe in love. Or truth, or beauty, or any other forces requiring faith. It's embarrassingly non-justifiable, when you get down to it. I would like to say that (at least) my belief system supports greater personal agency... but I'm not certain that it does.
Magic... you know it when you see it, like pornography or a turn on the street that you haven't taken for years.
*http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/opinion/21iht-edsafire.1.7978731.html?_r=0
I'm going to try writing a definition here: Magic is the manifestation of a monopoly on power that was not obtained through clearly articulable* means.
Magic is what changes lead to gold, and horses to unicorns.
All of these words ring hollow: I know it. Though... I feel it in my bones! The world has magic, and I know this for the same reason as some people believe in god and some people believe in love. Or truth, or beauty, or any other forces requiring faith. It's embarrassingly non-justifiable, when you get down to it. I would like to say that (at least) my belief system supports greater personal agency... but I'm not certain that it does.
Magic... you know it when you see it, like pornography or a turn on the street that you haven't taken for years.
*http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/opinion/21iht-edsafire.1.7978731.html?_r=0
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