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[proximoception]

There was no test, no vision quest, no institution empowered to hand out credentials. It was instead accepted that anyone willing to present himself as something as ridiculous as a magician might as well be regarded as one. Theirs, too, was a society uniquely resistant to hierarchizing. Since it has never been remotely clear what magic is - or on

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[grashupfer]

Traces, fragments. Love it.

[nightspore]

These are great.

I am always a sucker for magic.

Good term of art -- Cambridge change.

Here's a good short (eight page) Murnane story you might like. It's called "Land Deal."

(Damn -- the images don't seem to be coming through. I'll link to dropbox....)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oad43ix21g51cmw/Murnane%20Land%20Deal%201.jpeg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhcat7kuswbe7er/Murnane%20Land%20Deal%202.jpeg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/11ebtdwbrvkgzvj/Murnane%20Land%20Deal%203.jpeg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7753rgl2znl8f6/Murnane%20Land%20Deal%204%20out%20of%204.jpeg?dl=0

[proximoception]

Ha! I do like it. Orbis Tertius/Circular Ruins mashed up with Fitzgerald's Gatsby coda - and/or Bishop's Brazil 1600 poem. Nice.

Bit hazy on just what here put you in mind of it or of Cambridge change, though they don't seem infinitely far off.