“Fear is effective as much as magic.”
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Attila
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“Munitions and magic are circles that don’t intersect very effectively.”
James Blish
book
Black Easter
Source: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 36)
John Mortimer
(1923–2009) English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life (1982), p. 183
“I think there is too much darkness in magic.”
Alan Moore
(1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: I understand that the word ‘occult’ means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. I don’t see why there is any need to further obscure things that are actually lucid and bright. Language and strange terminology – to keep them as some private mystery. I think there is too much darkness in magic. I can understand that it is part of the theatre. I can understand Aleister Crowley – who I think was a great intellect that was sometimes let down by his own flair for showmanship — but he did a lot to generate the scary aura of the magician that you find these sad, Crowleyite fucks making a fetish of. The ones who say ‘oh we’re into Aleister Crowley because he was the wickedest man in the world, and we’re also into Charles Manson because we’re bad. And we are middle-class as well, but we’re bad’. There are some people who seek evil – I don’t think there is such a thing as evil – but there are people who seek it as a kind of Goth thing. That just adds to the murk to what to me is a very lucid and flourescent subject. What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells. Let’s get some fresh air, throw open the curtains – I can’t go for that posturing, spooky guy stuff. When they wanted me to do Fortean TV it became apparent that they wanted me to be Spooky Bloke. But I’m not actually trying to look spooky. I dress in black because it makes me look less fat, it’s as simple as that. It’s not a gothic flourish. I don’t want to be thought of as a figure of mystery or a master of the occult, surely this is about illumination, casting light on things. I’m an illuminist, that’d do for me.
“Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real.”
Laurence Olivier
(1907–1989) British actor, director and producer
As quoted in Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage (1975) by William C. Young, p. 885
Context: Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Hans Hofmann
(1880–1966) American artist
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 40
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)