“I do not know the etymology of the term magic, but it doesn’t mean miracles from nothing. It is the approximate polar twin of logic, and has common cause with poetics and metaphor. It is a kind of supra-logic which involves peculiar modes of active intimacy in place of representations or pure methods, and in this, it is for many purposes not only superior, but vastly more appropriate. It is not ritual; it is an array of ways of knowing that differ from logic. The word has become value-laden in our time, and thus useless and misleading.”

— an a i