tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 23 07:24:56 2010
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Re: More Shakespeare please
- From: Fiat Knox <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: More Shakespeare please
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:23:39 +0000 (GMT)
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> Belief in spirits or the Supernatural
> is different than the belief in
> sorcery and magic. There are plenty of people in
> modern America who somehow
> believe in spirits who don't believe there is any such
> thing as magic.
> Prospero causes and manipulates the storm which starts the
> play by way of
> sorcery. I suppose if you treat him as a Q-like
> figure, then... sure.
> Granted, the revenge-based motivation of the storm is very
> Klingon.
What do you think sorcery and magic are, if not the forced summoning of beings from a strange realm, their conquest through force of will and the power to coerce them, like Ariel, to do the sorcerer's bidding?
All the rest - the visions, the symbolism, the dreams, the phantoms and illusions, the omens - are trickery and legerdemain - and there's a word for that too.