Books, Magic(k)
First off you should go check out the interesting rumination on the magical worlds of the Harry Potter books and Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Matt at Gnostical Turpitude.
“Why are books about magic so appealing? I think the notion that in the world around us there are all sorts of fantastic events bubbling beneath the surface reality is a compelling one. But would you really want to live in such a world? In Clarke’s book, at times it seems to me that living with the 19th century British social structure would be more difficult than living with the world of Faerie waiting beyond every tolling bell. And in Rowling’s books, at times Hogwarts seems like it would be a wonderful place to have gone to school. At the same time, though, I think that to actually live in a world with magic would be quite frightening.”
I also wanted to mention that the last issue of Alan Moore’s brilliant comic book about magickal theory Promethea has come out this week.
cover to Promethea #32
“Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III deliver the most gloriously experimental issue of Promethea yet, in which the reader takes an incredible trip through the magical cosmos with Promethea as a guide. But there’s more! While other comics allow the reader only one way to read a book, this issue gives you several options ? one of which is assembling its 32 pages into a giant double-sided poster. Once the poster has been assembled, the pages form two lovely images (one on each side) that are only discernible as a complete entity!”
Honestly, if you are into magic(k) or the occult or art that deals with these subjects at all you should pick up the collected editions. You can read a review of the last issue here, you can read annotations of the series here.
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