me...

Magic is a sticky wicket. People who do believe don't like dissecting it, and people who don't believe aren't fair at all.

i resent both positions equally. i think it's a kind of insult to the universe to suggest that magic exists outside of our minds, but the phenomenon itself is wonderful - literally. Magic is an emotion we experience when our mind reaches its limits of comprehension. And that's why religion is so often backwards, trying to explain with the inexplicable.

"What, then," the astute reader asks, "is the difference between magic and confusion?" And i would suggest that confusion is caused by something we don't understand to an extent that we do, and magic is caused by something we do understand to an extent that we don't. For example, what you are experiencing right now is confusion.

Current Mood: meditative
Current Music: "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams

posted by Arthur @ 9/07/2002 08:25:00 PM

Saturday, September 07, 2002