Moonshot Magic
or Words that leak from the page

To briefly recap my last post for those of you who found it to hard to read, there are a number of feelings I wish to capture from the past book I read.

Confusing non-linearity aside, the main feeling it left me and other readers with was a lingering sense of interest that continued past the end of the book. I described it before as a madness affecting the author that infected the reader and drove them to pass along. This took on various forms for different people but it’s something which I would love to incorporate into my magic.

I had sort of been working on this already with the idea of souvenir tricks but it’s all coming together in my head now, and I’m going to start by confessing that until a few weeks ago, I didn’t understand the Pothole trick.

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or Words that leak from the page”

House of Cards
or This Blog is now Ergodic Literature

Occasionally I have cause to comment not upon what’s going on outside the blog but on the blog itself and while usually this means I’m apologising for not updating it in over a year, this time it’s to explain a change you might have noticed in a couple of previous posts.

I temporarily altered my footnote style such that the footnotes were linked using clickable tags, so if you click the number it takes you to the footnote, and clicking the footnotes number takes you back to the text. This was to facilitate a cleaner user experience and following footnotes as the reader progressed through the text. I now have at least 2 readers after all and I have to continually refer to them in order that they keep coming back.

This was quite difficult to do especially as I do almost all of my blogging on my phone and typing html on a touch screen keyboard is an absolute nightmare, and when I finished off my post about hypnotism, faced with the task of adding all these links I decided not to bother. Not because it was too much effort, but because I had read House of Leaves.

Spoilers ahead for House of Leaves I guess, as if most people didn’t know about it entirely from internet videos explaining the entire plot.

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or This Blog is now Ergodic Literature”