Porta Magica (The Occasionally Dark History of
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...'magic has the capacity to hollow you out. It can feed on you if you allow it until there's nothing left but pieces of emotion and personality, and the overriding force of all those things that we want and above all need that is called Desiderata. The fragments of us that survive are the blocks which we use to rebuild ourselves if we can. I believe that those fragments which have the strongest ability to survive are our true selves, stripped to the bone it's why certain traits are accentuated in us by that I mean magicians deviance, obsession or cruelty are examples. Magic is glamorous in the dark or the light. It gleams in our thoughts. It can create and destroy. It is never false. It is beautiful and frightening. Sleek, cool, hard, brutal, cruel, sexy, jealous. There have I described magic to you?'