and figuring it out is inherently a heavy lift induction task, straight explication tends rather strongly to conceal that and make people think they can just, like, internalize the words using the meanings they're used to assigning to them
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anyway, read Walter Jon Williams's ARISTOI and Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT and Greg Bear's BLOOD MUSIC and Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH and sure what the fuck the Illuminatus! trilogy
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Ugh. There are at least two of those that i think need heavy caveats on the recommendation. (I'm fond of four of the five, myself, but even so i wouldn't recommend Lord of Light without a lot of caveats about the racism and misogyny. And i wouldn't recommend Snow Crash at all.)
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(I love Zelazny -- love love love -- but he was definitely ... who he was, for good and for ill. I'm careful inflicting him on people.)
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This is definitely one of the best first paragraphs in all of SFF, though.pic.twitter.com/V7qWypTWVH
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Also, for learning about occulty shit, FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Eco is a must, and i'd also say read basically anything by Patricia McKillip.
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An embarrassment of optionspic.twitter.com/Tfv7MNLJFb
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Yeah, like i said, i'd start Chaos (and you!) with either ALPHABET OF THORN or THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE.
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(People who are neither you nor Chaos, i tend to start on either IN THE FORESTS OF SERRE or THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD. Or for short fiction people, the collection HARROWING THE DRAGON.)
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There is definitely no formal teaching in her work, and in fact her entire oeuvre rejects the idea that magic follows rules or functions according to any logic other than the logic of narrative. But her prose is, ITSELF, magic, and i do not mean that in a superficial sense.
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great, i was basically born sick of all the books that purport to be works of theory while being primarily works of practice, so something that's consciously and usefully a work of practice while not claiming to be a work of theory sounds like a real step up
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