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[rozk]

The roll continues, and seems to demonstrate that I have a far nastier imagination than I ever, well, imagined. I hate magic almost as much as Mike Harrison does, something I hadn't quite realized before.

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Happy birthday jasonelvis, a truly brilliant chap whose putting together of Transfabulous alongside Serge has changed my life immeasurably for the better.

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I took about half an hour off writing to watch some of Bonekickers, a loopily bad show about archaeology that perpetually teeters on the brink of conscious fantasy, (as opposed to weird stuff that they just made up like Roman napalm hand-grenades - and OK, yes, Greek fire, but they never weaponized it for the individual soldier). This is a team of professionals that mak Torchwood look like MI5 in Spooks, compared to whom the team in Primaeval are a crack bunch. And they say things like 'love is at forty degrees - you can't make it straight'. Gahhh! It is a show that hurts the brain.

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[jasonelvis.livejournal.com]

Thank you Roz! I'm thoroughly enjoying your novel by the way. I have it open on my work computer so i can read it sneakily! Blimey it's good though. I'd love to see it as a comic one day too.

[rozk.livejournal.com]

It is, of course, totally the product of years of writing critical stuff about television shows and comics.

Just tell me to mind my own F*ck*ng buisness

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

I can think of a lot of reasons why you won't answer this.-was it delany who said that explaining (in print) what a piece of work MEANS while writing it is the best way of killing narrative drive he knows.
But am curious imn what sense you mean 'Hate Majic' this is kinda weird from a cstone BUFFY fan. Do you mean the ash-can side of fantasy worlds hasn't been explored enuf or somethinmg more Heretical?

Re: Just tell me to mind my own F*ck*ng buisness

[rozk.livejournal.com]

I mean that it seems to me that magic, if it were true and it is true for the purposes of this novel, is a path that leads to madness and despair for most people that get sucked into using it. It is 'a technology of will' and most people are too messed up to know what they want, let alone what they need; magic is just another dangerous drug.

To quote myself:

Aurora's flesh was withering, and not from the salt, but from being drawn ever thinner over whatever inner structure she still possessed. The cries peaked and fell away in quiet fulfilment, to be drowned progressively by another noise. Something was smacking its gums together so hard it was like leather slapping against leather, was slurping like the worst and most unwelcome kiss in the world.

'Could this get more disgusting?' Elodie said.

'Sweetie,' Emma said. 'You're a vampire. Glass houses and all that.'

Elodie looked hurt.

'Now you're being horrid.' she said.

Ruby looked at them both with mild distaste.

'Aurora used to be - well, not my friend, obviously - but someone I knew and vaguely admired,' she said. 'Is there nothing we can do for her?'

Emma shook her head.

'By the time people do this sort of thing to themselves,' she said, 'they're gone. They just think that what they want is more important than anyone else, more important than who they are. People say magic is a technology of will and it's true. That doesn't make it a good thing.'

'She was in so much pain,' Ruby said.

'She's in worse pain now,' Emma said. 'And she killed people to get there.'

Re: Just tell me to mind my own F*ck*ng buisness

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

Very thoughtful Hmmm....
Well I think CS Lewis would have agreed dunno about Charles Williams- he haD friends who were part of the Golden Dawn and dabbled himself. Its a fallen Philosophy of Life deeply Catholic in my view (an exentential KNOW YOUR PLACE) & dificult to reconsile with other views of yours which seem extremely Whiggish.
Dubious whether we can discuss this fruitfully as you know a lot more about this than I do & you could drown me with facts. Would like to hear you debate this with an equal such as Alan Moore (if both of you could keep your tempers which is unlikely).
Its not a practical issue with me the skepticasl side of me makes it unlikely that I will DO anything along these lines other than read an occational book by Alystair Crowly and daydream a bit but the Raveniously Intelectually Inquiring side of me would like to settle the matter out of sheer curiousity(Hubris?).

Re: Just tell me to mind my own F*ck*ng buisness

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

Very thoughtful Hmmm....
Well I think CS Lewis would have agreed dunno about Charles Williams- he haD friends who were part of the Golden Dawn and dabbled himself. Yours is a fallen Philosophy of Life deeply Catholic in my view (an exentential KNOW YOUR PLACE) & dificult to reconsile with other views of yours which seem extremely Whiggish.
Dubious whether we can discuss this fruitfully as you know a lot more about this than I do & you could drown me with facts. Would like to hear you debate this with an equal such as Alan Moore (if both of you could keep your tempers which is unlikely).
Its not a practical issue with me the skepticasl side of me makes it unlikely that I will DO anything along these lines other than read an occational book by Alystair Crowly and daydream a bit but the Raveniously Intelectually Inquiring side of me would like to settle the matter out of sheer curiousity(Hubris?).