A revolution without dancing.

And I've received answers, or at least confirmation of the question: too many birds dead on the pavement smashed into windows, and Joan of Arc everywhere. She was a statue I've passed a dozen times before, never noticing that it was gilded, that the frame of the rider was too small. Then I found the stylized flames of the logo of Arc Waste Management Company, and Alex had a bottle of Joan of Arc something on his desk. It was the name of an album today in the used record store where we stopped, too. So, for the time being, I'll attempt to differentiate between the armies of England and windows I can neither see nor understand. I spoke to Finn for the first time in a while (there seems to have been good reason for this) and he was thrilled with my new anger. He'd always thought it would look pretty on me, and that it would be more useful than a good many other things. That is comforting. The universe gave me a free copy of V For Vendetta, and seems to have gone to great lengths to do so. My rage, in this case at least, will most likely not culminate in the bombing of Parliament, but it seemed fairly clear that there were other things to which I was meant to be paying attention.

Heroic and misunderstood.

"...magic allows us to take control of our own development as human beings. Magic allows us to see the world entire in a fresh and endlessly significant light and demands of us a vital and dynamic collaboration with our environment. Magic brings coherence and structure to psychological 'breakdowns,' psychedelic experiences or transpersonal encounters. Magic allows us to personify our fears and failures as demons and outlines time-honored methods of bargaining with these feelings or banishing them. Magic is the sane response to a world filled with corporate ghost-gods, roaming, mindless laws and peering surveillance lenses. Above all, magic is about achieving results. It's about manipulating real-time events, dealing with devious 'spirits' and other autonomous energy sources. It's about conjuring dead pop icons to do your bidding and writing it all down so that it reads like an exciting adventure story and changes the world around it. Magic is glamorous, dark, and charismatic. 'Magic' is the hopelessly inadequate Standard English word for a long-established technology which permits access to the 'operating codes' underlying the current physical universe. Becoming a 'magician' is a developmental skill, like learning to talk, to reason, to empathize or to see perspective.

"Magic, in short, is Life as it is meant to be Lived by adults."

-Grant Morrison for Disinformation's Book of Lies, Preface, page 9.