ADAMAGICA

Robert Kelley's got a piece in The Brooklyn Rail, "ADAMAGICA: Magic and Iconolatry in Film," which is a kind of "meditation" on magic, cinema, and iconography. (Thanks to Pierre for posting a link.) This is brilliant: "We go to movies the way the ceremonial magicians picked up their grimoires and stepped into their magic circles. We go so we can see in the dark." I myself can modify this a bit and say that I go to poetry the way the ceremonial magicians picked up their grimoires and stepped into their magic circles; I go to see in the dark and, to shift this, to feel through the dark without moving. A grimoire is, after all, a grammar.