[UA] Tuneful Insanity

[Greg Stolze]

>On Tue, 8 May 2001 22:30:31 -0700 (PDT), ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
>
>a whole bunch more boring crap about what is or isn't a risk that we've all
>read ad nauseum already.
>
>Can we all just agree to disagree on this one and talk about voodoo or
>qabala or numerology or california or something?

Your wish is my command.  At  least to the degree that you wish for a new
topic.    This was an idea I had driving home from work yesterday,
listening to the radio.  ("Priests of Syrinx" if you must know.  Or is the
title "Temple of Syrinx"?  Anyhow.)

So I'm jamming along with Rush and the thought crosses my mind: What if, in
UA, music were magickal?  I don't mean that you can work magick through
music, spellsinger-style, as someone suggested.  What if music itself is a
FORM OF MAGICK and no one recognizes it?  Specifically, that its effects
are so well known and so predictable that it doesn't seem magickal.  We
just accept it as a normal part of life, when in fact its this
inexplicable, immaterial force that has a powerful effect on our thoughts
and emotions.  We can annotate it and theorize about its structure, but can
anyone really explain Beatlemania?

On one hand, this could come across as goofy, if we stick in rules that
adepts can't also be musicians, blah blah.  But at the same time, imagine
the cool possibilities of someone who develops an anti-magick amulet, only
to discover that music is no longer pleasing?

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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