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Stupefied. 18 January 2021
Magic. Have you ever really considered what it means? We re
told what it means a lot, especially in games. We re told it means fireballs and lightning bolts and turning people into sheep. But is that really magic, or is it simply a term used to describe something we ve become accustomed to? It s a thought that s been nagging at me.
It occurred reading The Tombs of Atuan recently, the second Earthsea book by Ursula K. Le Guin. It s a book about a wizard but something about the magic feels different. It feels incomprehensible. It s not defined by dice rolls or numbered values or rules, but worked out somewhere outside of explanation, just past the edge of understanding. A climactic battle happens where you can t see it: in the wizard s mind. He holds off a terrible evil but there are no explanations to lay it bare, no parameters by which to understand it. You understand it only as something extraordinary. And it feels like m