thread: 2009-04-30 : Magical Magic
On 2009-05-06, Mark W wrote:
Hmmmm... I wonder. Are we talking about two distinct kinds of magic, then? Because I would say that the kind I look for does follow comprehensible patterns that could be learned through experimentation - they're just not (necessarily, always) patterns of cause and effect. They're patterns of symbolic correspondence, meaning, emotion...
I think there's a very fine line, as David says above, between "magic" that's just "whoa, where'd THAT come from" and magic that is meaningful, yet mysterious.
