[UA] HUSH HUSH and (New Book)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 09:55 PM 11/09/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>Laced with Greg's Midwest antagonism towards New York and L.A., which
amused 
>>me greatly.
>
>I'm not sure if "laced" properly describes the way Greg works out his 
>American geocultural frustrations in his writing. "Cudgeled" might 
>perhaps be more apt.

Oh, I'm just being different for differences' sake.  Everyone else in the
world thinks LA and NY are King and Queen Shit, so I thought having them be
fairly insignificant, magick-wise, would be a nice twist.

But at a deeper level, I think it also comes from my feeling that in UA,
there's an inverse relationship between magick success and worldly success.
 No one gets it all.  Abel succeeds in the OU because he's applying worldly
solutions to mystic problems.  The Sleepers, while powerful, are fighting a
losing battle on many fronts because there are less than 200 of them
protecting the whole world.  They have mystic power, but their very focus
on it, and on keeping it secret, insulates them from accumulating the kind
of mundane power their mission really cries for.  Mak Attax, as I'm writing
them now, is a new attempt to marry the mystic and the worldly -- by a
bunch of people who really don't have all that much power in either.  

So the real reason LA and NY are nonmagickal is because they ARE
successful.  There's a fiction bit I wrote in which Dirk Allen argues that
real mystics are unlikely to develop in NY.  There's so much there already,
so much excitement on the material level, that there's no incentive to pay
attention to the supernatural.

-G.
The Greek Underworld kicks ass. It's like "Six Flags Over Psychotic
Depression," and Cerberus is the Ultra Twister.
                        - L. Fitzgerald Sjöberg

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