[87693] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: More Shakespeare please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fiat Knox)
Sat Jan 23 10:25:22 2010
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:23:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <96fdd8281001230700p292043dcg1a62130829801ec@mail.gmail.com>
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> 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.
