[UA] Magick Schools: Lingomancy

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Nick Wedig
> Sent: 25 June 2001 14:28
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] Magick Schools: Lingomancy
>
>
> >The anonymous assigners of the "true names?"
> >I'm seeing these gray, nondescript cats that work at the Bureau
> of Weights and
> >Standards, assigning metaphysical designations to all the atomic
> elements in an
> >enormous ritual to control them.
> >Holy crap--I find this chilling far beyond its potential use in a game.
>
> The guys who assign Library of Congress categorizations?
>
> Looking through the various books I had while waiting in a
> bookstore for several hours (for Neil Gaiman signing his new
> book) I noticed how odd these things can be, and how arbitrary.
> American Gods is listed as "American myths - fiction" "ex-cons -
> fiction" and "widowers-fiction" or something similar, which makes
> me think someone read the first chapter and the cover blurb and
> assigned the categories.

Hey, was he any good? I'm going to see him in a few weeks in Edinburgh. Or
Glasgow. One of them.

> The other book I got while there (The Melancholy Death of Oyster
> Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton... which may or may not be
> UAish depending on what you thought of his movies) was listed as
> "human abnormalities - poetry".  I bet it's the only book in that class.
>
> Some gang of nomomancers or bibliomancers exerting subtle control
> over the powers of other bibliomancers?
>
> Mr. Teapot
> poetic human abnormality

Similarly, look at the edges of the 'Mind Body Spirit' sections for
scientific treatises on evolution and similar topics. Or Astronomy beside
Astrology. Someone wants those topics hidden.

Joe.

--
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin at notzen.com

"You'll regret being so damn abusive when
the electric UFO gods transphase in from
Dimension 10 to appoint me manager of
the universe."  - The Drummer, Planetary.




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