[UA] OT: The k in magic.

[Chris Cooper]

--- Timothy Ferguson <ferguson at beyond.net.au> wrote:
> Guys, source?
> 
> I shouldn't bring my day job here, I know, but I was
> sure one of you could
> tell me who put the "k" in magick.

Okay.

It was everyone's most deferred-to occultist
Edmund-or-Aleister Crowley. He was really sensitive
about sorcery being confused with stage magician
tricks, and wanted to add some granduer and deference
to the word magic by plugging the Special K onto it.

I personally like the philosophy that magic is merely
parlour tricks on a weirder scale. I suppose its
resentlful tongue-in-cheek humour that magic is only
fantasy! ;p

Either way magic should be without the Special K. It
looks like some sort of terrible anchor glued to the
back of a perfectly elegant word.

Cheers,

Chris.

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