tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post7595773397622099724..comments2024-03-27T07:30:21.457-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Day of the Dead HelloUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-70364190464289217032015-08-11T12:30:38.482-04:002015-08-11T12:30:38.482-04:00Love the new background and the reflection is like...Love the new background and the reflection is likewise gold.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-16698921499803673242015-08-11T11:08:13.417-04:002015-08-11T11:08:13.417-04:00i heard buffy st marie's song 'god is aliv...i heard buffy st marie's song 'god is alive, magic is afoot' on the radio when it first came out - but either i didn't know until this morning that the words were by leonard cohen, or i had once encountered this fact and then forgotten it<br /><br />the process people go through when adopting the world view that 'magic is afoot' is the topic of t.m. luhrmann's 1989 book <i>Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England<br /><br /><br /></i><br /><br />i am reminded also of a scene from the movie 'little big man' [i haven't read the novel - but it is still possible i might] in which grandfather explains to the title character that the white man thinks that everything is dead - the mountains, the rivers, the plants, the animals, people themselves - while the <b>human beings</b> know that everything is alive<br /><br /><b> </b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com