Thursday, December 22, 2022

Recognition as the beginning of everything

No magic can change something into something that it is not;
the imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation.

                Susan Palwick, The Last Unicorn: Magic as Metaphor 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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