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wolven7Did you ever want to learn magic? Did you ever think about learning Chaos Magick, but just not quite "get" the conceptual processes by which it was supposed to function?
Did reading all that Peter Caroll and Phil Hine just not do anything for your understanding? Did you wish you had a more accessable, perhaps fictional mechanism by which to make your entry?
Read China Miéville's Kraken.
I have some small problems with it, but expect a full review, after I'm done, because I'm seriously starting to feel that Miéville's writing magical manuals That more & more he's just writing about How to alter your own perception and to present the world to yourself in ways such that new correspondences make much more sense.
What he starts in Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and The Iron Council, he begins to seriously perfect in The City and The City, Kraken, and Embassytown. With the second of the latter three being the most practical (and funny) of all of them.
I don't know that he's on board with the while idea that "Magic is a real thing that people do and not all of them are up their own asses about," but the man sure is a damn good writer.
The Problem With Systems Theory: Everything You Encounter Becomes A System to Parse, Recontextualise, and Use. EVERYTHING.
Did reading all that Peter Caroll and Phil Hine just not do anything for your understanding? Did you wish you had a more accessable, perhaps fictional mechanism by which to make your entry?
Read China Miéville's Kraken.
I have some small problems with it, but expect a full review, after I'm done, because I'm seriously starting to feel that Miéville's writing magical manuals That more & more he's just writing about How to alter your own perception and to present the world to yourself in ways such that new correspondences make much more sense.
What he starts in Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and The Iron Council, he begins to seriously perfect in The City and The City, Kraken, and Embassytown. With the second of the latter three being the most practical (and funny) of all of them.
I don't know that he's on board with the while idea that "Magic is a real thing that people do and not all of them are up their own asses about," but the man sure is a damn good writer.
The Problem With Systems Theory: Everything You Encounter Becomes A System to Parse, Recontextualise, and Use. EVERYTHING.
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Date: 2012-02-02 08:14 pm (UTC)Of course, my method of handling bad movies usually involves snarky robots.
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Date: 2012-02-04 03:18 am (UTC)It seems only fitting.
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