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wytchcroft) wrote2009-03-02 05:52 pm
wytchcroft) wrote2009-03-02 05:52 pm
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week of wonders! (day2)
Welcome, welcome and thrice welcome once again to this week of wonders!
This show of magic!
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Ah magic... Yes boys and girls that mysterious tenth sense of the 9th dimension - from Prometheus and his gift of fire to Hermes Trigmegistos and the founding of Alchemy - through Master Burckhardt and on to the capricious wiles of Dr D and the awe and majesty of Prospero on his island...
...to the dread witches of Macbeth to the kindly fury of the covens and the reckless theatre of Madame Blavatsky and the holy fool Crowley.
From the adventures of Timothy Hunter (the original Harry Potter?) to my personal favourite The Worst Witch herself, Mildred Hubble (the original Harry Potter?).
(Ah i'm just messing with ya! Sit down in the back there!)
Mildred Hubble, whose latest adventures I have just been given as an early birthday present – woot!.
Not to mention, in my own time, the wonder of Ali Bongo before whom so many of my generation would sit enthralled.
The eternal mystery to speaks to hearts above our minds, where did it come from and where is it going?
Well, a history lesson then:
Magic was invented by Hieronymus P. Knickerbocker in 1902 using a frog, a bellows and some fireworks.
Unfortunately for the Professor he was vaporised and blown back through time, dispersed into the aether, suffusing the entirety of history with his micro-particles...
Truly, it can now be said that just as Magic is everywhere, so too there is a little knickerbocker in all of us.
Yes indeed a tiny, tiny knickerbocker - smaller than a flea.
Flea's of course are also magic - witness this selection of superb insect delights!
Ah the circus - the glamour, thrill and danger of that great roving beast of entertainment found in so many forms... from the rampages of Dionysus to the Medicine shows and Carny of the old West and Oakie, from the traditional fun of clowns and the high-wire to the diesel punk antics of Archaos for whom I once juggled TV sets and waved a chainsaw! Even now the circus is in my blood - my cousin has married into it and one of my best friends is a trapeze artist.
And finally, talking of juggling - it is said that the highest and most profound feat of juggling - the magic that all young jugglers should aspire to, is the art of making the balls stand still.
I have achieved this.
Not in the air perhaps, as is supposed to happen - but certainly in my hands! Most especially when I was learning to spin the glass spheres made so popular by the amazing skill of Jareth the Goblin King.
To learn this art I used to practise blindfolded with three spheres in my hand as I walked the length and breadth of the house in which I and my partner of the time lived.
It was in doing so that I discovered the related art of falling or I should say tumbling - not to mention yelling, spraining and getting to a hospital quickly! Heady times.
And so we draw the curtain closed for now, only for now - please my friends join us tomorrow for another day in this week of wonders!
For I can promise many varied treats to come - including entertaining trickery, clowning and conjuring, feats of illusion and sleight of hand.
Than you Ladies and Gentlemen, refreshments can be found at the stand and a short question and answer session will follow.
This show of magic!
.Ah magic... Yes boys and girls that mysterious tenth sense of the 9th dimension - from Prometheus and his gift of fire to Hermes Trigmegistos and the founding of Alchemy - through Master Burckhardt and on to the capricious wiles of Dr D and the awe and majesty of Prospero on his island...
...to the dread witches of Macbeth to the kindly fury of the covens and the reckless theatre of Madame Blavatsky and the holy fool Crowley.
From the adventures of Timothy Hunter (the original Harry Potter?) to my personal favourite The Worst Witch herself, Mildred Hubble (the original Harry Potter?).
(Ah i'm just messing with ya! Sit down in the back there!)
Mildred Hubble, whose latest adventures I have just been given as an early birthday present – woot!.
Not to mention, in my own time, the wonder of Ali Bongo before whom so many of my generation would sit enthralled.
The eternal mystery to speaks to hearts above our minds, where did it come from and where is it going?
Well, a history lesson then:
Magic was invented by Hieronymus P. Knickerbocker in 1902 using a frog, a bellows and some fireworks.
Unfortunately for the Professor he was vaporised and blown back through time, dispersed into the aether, suffusing the entirety of history with his micro-particles...
Truly, it can now be said that just as Magic is everywhere, so too there is a little knickerbocker in all of us.
Yes indeed a tiny, tiny knickerbocker - smaller than a flea.
Flea's of course are also magic - witness this selection of superb insect delights!
Ah the circus - the glamour, thrill and danger of that great roving beast of entertainment found in so many forms... from the rampages of Dionysus to the Medicine shows and Carny of the old West and Oakie, from the traditional fun of clowns and the high-wire to the diesel punk antics of Archaos for whom I once juggled TV sets and waved a chainsaw! Even now the circus is in my blood - my cousin has married into it and one of my best friends is a trapeze artist.
And finally, talking of juggling - it is said that the highest and most profound feat of juggling - the magic that all young jugglers should aspire to, is the art of making the balls stand still.
I have achieved this.
Not in the air perhaps, as is supposed to happen - but certainly in my hands! Most especially when I was learning to spin the glass spheres made so popular by the amazing skill of Jareth the Goblin King.
To learn this art I used to practise blindfolded with three spheres in my hand as I walked the length and breadth of the house in which I and my partner of the time lived.
It was in doing so that I discovered the related art of falling or I should say tumbling - not to mention yelling, spraining and getting to a hospital quickly! Heady times.
And so we draw the curtain closed for now, only for now - please my friends join us tomorrow for another day in this week of wonders!
For I can promise many varied treats to come - including entertaining trickery, clowning and conjuring, feats of illusion and sleight of hand.
Than you Ladies and Gentlemen, refreshments can be found at the stand and a short question and answer session will follow.