Equinox (1973)
Context: Always remember the objects you are working with. When you make a bridge, remember you are putting steel on stone and dirt. … Some day you will write poems to a little girl: marks with ink on paper. … When you are making love, you are moving flesh against flesh. That is the basis of all magic. (p. 30)
Source: 1930s, "Empirical Sociology" (1931), p. 322
[7282@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.”
Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Context: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
“There is magic within
There is magic without
Follow me and you'll learn
Just what life's all about.”
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities
Context: When the fantasy bells
Of the universe ring
You can fly through the sky
On a dragonfly's wing.
There is magic within
There is magic without
Follow me and you'll learn
Just what life's all about.
“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”
Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
“Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.”
from Introduction
The Oaken Heart
