Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Food for Thought . . .

  "Sorcery! We are all sorcerers, and live in a wonderland of marvel and beauty if we did but know it. For the seed sprouting from the ground is as strange a truth as though we saw the hosts of Heaven sweeping onward in glory, or could commune with fairies, or raise from his grave the master magician of song who laid a curse on all who should dig his dust. But like children who go to sleep in the grand opera, and are wild with delight at the puppet Punch, we turn aside from the endless miracle of Nature to be charmed and bewildered with the petty thaumaturgy of seance guitars in the dark, cigarettes, and rope-tying, because it is miracle enough for us."

 - from "Gypsy Fortune Telling" by Charles Godfrey LeLand, President of the Gypsy Lore Society, published 1889.


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