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...Sunlight Dialogues is a book about law and order combatting chaos. The two sides of this battle are personified by the book's two main characters, one an ineffectual police chief named Fred Clumly, the other a crazed magician who calls himself The Sunlight Man. They are brought together in a small community in upstate New York after the Sunlight Man is arrested for painting the word "LOVE" in large letters across and entrance to the New York State Thruway. With the aid of his conjuring tricks, The Sunlight Man breaks out of jail and begins to conduct a series...
...realize the ways in which the society he defends is full of injustice. Through his conversations with The Sunlight Man, it dawns on Clumly that his function as a police officer is merely to preserve the appearance of order in a society rife with crime. As the outlaw magician tells him: "I care about every single case. You care about nothing but the average. I love justice. You love...
Hearsay can bring psychic benefits to speaker and listener alike. A case in point is the false teacup story about President Nixon, which Kapferer says was spread by the official Chinese press. Instead of challenging the President, so the story goes, authorities arranged to have a performing magician pull the cup out of Nixon's briefcase and replace it with a cheap imitation. Kapferer thinks this rumor offered folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over...
...earlier vehicles capable of holding the whole family. It corners well and accelerates quickly. It has to: The Eyes of the Dragon is a medieval fantasy that drives over thin ice, and its strength is in its speed. Good Prince Peter is framed for regicide by Flagg, a wicked magician who could teach Merlin a few tricks. Once Peter is hauled away to a prison tower, Flagg's puppet, Thomas, rules with a combination of cupidity, naivete and wickedness. Will Thomas be deposed? Will Peter escape and regain the throne? Will he successfully confront Flagg -- or will the wizard disappear...
...backdrop of his country's night world, a place of sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...