freak flags and future home comings

I think I am what my mother would have called “a dreamer”, and my father frequently referred to as a “dead loss”, and what decades later would be termed a “slacker”. I was also never quite at home, though I had a capacity to be luxuriantly at home in the most squalid of chance moments. [...]

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Magic, time and space

I could never quite jive with the idea of magic as an energy driven thing that you wilfully did to the world, couched in near ballistic metaphors. These were the metaphors of an old age, practically an industrial age – hydraulic, force driven, a kind of subtle mechanics in which magic impacted our world and [...]

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