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Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

Back in the olden days, people used spells to ward off evil powers.  Some people think spells went out of date.  They think spells don’t work any more.  Or maybe they think that all the evil powers are already banished.  Those people have found that life is perfect.  No troubles.  No problems.

Have you ever wanted to curse the darkness? 

The rest of us wanted to have spells to ward off troubles, problems and annoyances.  The old spells wouldn't work on new troubles, so we had to find some new spells.  People did that long ago.  But people wanted to get away from magical notions, so they used names like mottoes, quotations, slogans, and sayings.

Incantations by the Wizard of Is.

You've run into a quote that seemed to speak to you.  A saying that summed things up precisely.  A line that seemed to be written for just that time and place.  It was written for some other time and place.  But the right line can reach across time and place.

I never met a quote I didn't like.

That quote didn't hang around accidentally.  People gathered it up, and passed it around.  They kept it because it fitted into times and places that they knew.  Maybe they adjusted it to a new purpose. That's how a string of words turns into a quote.

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