Those each have their own kind of magic. Wikipedia is the "knowing all" sort of magic. TV Tropes is more the "fascination with everything" sort.
My own sort of magic is in leading people to themselves. Or in building a scene in words which enraptures the mind, envelopes what senses are available, and quiets the struggle to escape a scene that you know cannot happen in the living world around you... but only in the living world before your eyes, the one whose moments, captured play out through your inner voice -- sometimes with their own voices, too.
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Date: 2009-11-28 05:36 am (UTC)My own sort of magic is in leading people to themselves. Or in building a scene in words which enraptures the mind, envelopes what senses are available, and quiets the struggle to escape a scene that you know cannot happen in the living world around you... but only in the living world before your eyes, the one whose moments, captured play out through your inner voice -- sometimes with their own voices, too.