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“The adjective heard most often is magical. The pure magic of living light harkens back to childhood fantasies of secret grottos, wizards’ caves and unicorn haunts, where the mushrooms in fairy rings glow with cold green fire and a wave of the hand sends multicolored sparks streaming from fingertips. Real-world encounters with some enchantments manifest as children chasing fireflies on warm summer nights, lovers strolling a beach hand in hand with the Milky Way overhead while sprinklings of sea sparkle gild their footprints in the sand, and kayakers on a moonless night creating luminous blue explosions and sprays of liquid light with each dip and arc of their paddles.”
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“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”
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“To put this in perspective, if most of the animals in the ocean are bioluminescent (from single-celled bacteria to colossal squid) then a majority of the creatures on the planet are communicating using language-of-light dialects that we don’t comprehend.”
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Magic Realism
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
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