inadvertently evoking
"Inadvertently Evoking," August 4, 2022 (#216)
title from "The Laughing Place is a Rabbit Hole to Disney's Animal KINGdom, Part III: The Shining" by scrola (August 4, 2022)
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1958)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)
The Age of Magic by Ben Okri (2014)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (2005)
last line from Of Magic and Mice: A History of American Animated Cartoons by Leonard Maltin (1980)
Inadvertently Evoking
Sometimes--for one reason or another--it gets so bad that I don't feel
at the same time conscious of relishing that very quality. His eyes
have a gift for bringing out the best in situations. Thank you for tonight,
or rather, understanding the situation, but not the larger situation
that I didn't want them to suffer. So right away I told him,
a guileless, ordinary chap, who went about laughing,
if you want a camera assistant, I’m your fox. I come from
all along the wall under the staircase. They don’t look like
a buck a week allowance, and thought it still wasn't enough
as he denied the antithesis between God and nature, saw in the
houses, something glowed. It was as if the visible world concealed an enigma.
The medium had always loved watching amusement park visitors wait in long,
drawings to create one minute of animation--a far cry from the demands.
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