On Monday, 26 March 2018 02:11:01 UTC+2, Kenneth Harrow wrote:
Magic in the words.
Love Apart by Christopher Okigbo
The moon has ascended between us,
Between two pines
That bow to each other;Love with the moon has ascended,
Has fed on our solitary stems;And we are now shadows
That cling to each other,
But kiss the air only.
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/
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Date: Sunday 25 March 2018 at 18:10
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A personal reaction to the Chief Rabbi of Israel referring to Black People as "Monkeys"
Dear Kenneth and Oluwatoyin and dear Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Marquez, many thanks for expanding the scope of what may be deemed magical, for your contributions to magical realism, for One Hundred Years of Solitude, also thinking of Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri for The Famished Road – for Oluwatoyin 's explorations of some of the magic in the mystery, and Kenneth's ken , in particular ( like Particulars Joe) the genre of cinematic magic and its latest blockbuster Black Panther
Over here, it's magic in the air ! Such a beautiful day today, all of eight degrees Celsius plus, you would think it's the beginning of the Magical Swedish Spring, wild tussilago suddenly shooting up from nowhere, birds (both the human and those other furry, fluffy little things) chirping, whilst my Better Half says that she will only know for sure that Spring is finally here when she hears the motorbikes start roaring off to somewhere...Oooooo ooooooooo Oooooooooo
sun is shining, the weather is sweet
(makes you want to move your dancing feet)
I met my neighbour Bengt-Arne at the doorway and said to him, "Even the Vikings are smiling and happy today" - he was also on his way out , told me that today I probably shouldn't need a hat – true, true, sun shining on some other bald patch, shining from up there just as the Almighty is always shining everywhere ( one of the reasons why I wear a hat, but he probably doesn't know that (that the Almighty is always everywhere and that's why I wear a hat, because that's part of the glory of being the Almighty – He can see through glass, looking glasses, stone, blankets, hats, He causes the sun to shine and the phases of the moon to appear and disappear as regularly as He wills it, who can deny this ? " So happy just to be alive – on this new morning, New morning, New morning , with You...."
Soon we will all be singing and humming The Currage of Kildare
"Long time has passed
and the summer's come at last
the small birds are singing in the trees
Their little hearts are glad...etc. etc.
Toyin, my understanding is that the magician aims at playing God i.e. controlling the elements that Franz Bardon talks about, such as when the Almighty caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep and then stole one of his ribs out of which he made Eve, such as when the Almighty split the Red Sea / Sea of Reeds, controlled the wind and the waves - a little different perhaps from quotingJeru The Damaja :
"Melodies, that flow like the breeze
Through the trees, like my forefathers, command the wind and seas
With my jungle music"Or ( instant magic) quoting what said Aaron to Moses when he came down from the mountain:
"I threw the gold into the fire and up popped the calf"
The day before yesterday it was the magic of Elijah ascending to Heaven – thus giving birth to Chariot mysticism ( they too want to fly) - faith can move mountains, Jesus turns water into wine, Jesus walks on water "and Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water", next chapter Jesus became an astronaut or a cosmonaut, when he ascended through space to sit at the right hand side of His Dad - will probably return the same way that he departed through space)
With regard to the question of what are Africans doing to harness their supernatural powers to help develop Africa, and Oluwatoyin's rejoinder that the Oba of Benin's curse on the practitioners of witchcraft is having its own special effect, is this not what the former Pope Benedictus Erectus was complaining about :"Africa, he declared, had to cure itself of witchcraft and the practices of magic".
One of the cures that we ought to all have in mind( and I'm sure that Baba Solomon Kadiri will agree with me here) is that we instead of producing professors of electricity who produce darkness only, we should make more rapid strides in science and technology to redeem us all from the demons of the superstitions that still enslave us
There are still a few people around who think that Nigger
Is the name of people who come from Nigeria.
Don't you think that they would show some respect for us all if we sent up a few monkeys into space?
Was it Karen Blixen that tells of a brave Kikuyu summoning the courage to touch a lantern that he was seeing for the first time – in the dark, because he thought that it was a star that had fallen down ? Almost cerain, in Jesus' day ( flash in the pan) if he had used a tape recorder or a camera, that would have impressed even the Pharisees...
On Sunday, 25 March 2018 13:37:56 UTC+2, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:well put, Ken
toyin
On 25 March 2018 at 03:56, Kenneth Harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:
With a little bit of imagination, we can take toyin's words below, and see how the same qualities of "magic" also apply to art. And I would venture, to the art of fela, and of great musicians and artists, of theatre and of film, as well. Especially performing artists have all the qualities you celebrate.
Remember socrates's notion of the magical intuition that sparked his thought, the gift of the gods. A slight shift, and you have figures like eshu, playful, without limits, and above all creative.
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
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Date: Saturday 24 March 2018 at 21:50
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A personal reaction to the Chief Rabbi of Israel referring to Black People as "Monkeys"Imagination, verbal affirmations, intuition, creativity, make believe, the intersection of the inhabiting of alternative realities enabled by art in harmony with the discrimination between aspects of reality, may be seen as summing up this form of magic.
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