“‘Magical’ practices seem to me like fetishes of transentience, which — without method, object, religion, or system — intimately senses and relates with all moments of all beings and places… uniquely and heartfully.

One need not imagine the craven purposes required to produce representations of this; they are everywhere apparent. It is difficult not to compare them to those same purposes that, too often, nurture and dominate our relationships with language, knowledge… and even our methods of relation themselves.”

— an anonymous informant