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ACT 1 CALL MAGIC
whereby
traveller arrives at village with messages intact;
announces strategy of journey henceforth; startle-hidden, enumerates symbols
on dreaming wall; successful message transmission from the garden; obtains discomfort upon unlikely encounter with another traveller; obtains mild electrocution upon subsequent; pronounces judgment thereby self-inducing somnambulance; calls Magic; new encounters purport obedience to higher vibration.
Oh my gosh, I almost didn’t make it! But I did. And I have so many messages for you from the villages that I have passed through.
This is part three of a three part story. A little bit strange
A little bit funny
And a little bit gory.
Here we go.
And as I came around the corner of the building,
I saw embedded in the wall a shell, I saw a most beautiful pearl and I saw the footprints of a dog and I saw a word M-A-G-I-C. And I looked over to you in your garden and you leaned forward to me and you said ‘How beautiful!’. Thank you! ‘No, how beautiful are the columns of the temple that have found their way here, right now.’
We can climb the highest mountain
We can ford the raging river
Even as we make the waitress cry
Even as we curse the next guy
Even as we brace for attack from our fellow man And we can hear a child crying
on the other side of the world
Even as we can’t hear our own friends but ...
And I came around the corner of the building and I saw embedded in the wall a shell, a pearl, a seven-league boot, the footprints of a dog and I saw people streaming past you in the garden. Where were they going? Hey!
CALL MAGIC!
A man approached me on the street and he said ‘You’re so attractive’. I know. ‘Your legs are like columns in a temple, I just want to caress them and I...’ And I said aren’t you my girlfriend’s boyfriend? Oh, I’d never do anything. I just thought you valued honesty.’ I do. ‘I just thought you valued openness.’ I DO.
CALL MAGIC! Wha?
Just then a woman came walking towards me wearing what looked like a superhero’s cape but not quite. Very plain and unassuming. And as
she passed, she looked at me and her eyes were bright blue and piercing and brimming with intelligence and humour. I felt like I’d been zapped.
You never know who you’re talking to
You never know who you’re walking to
You never know who you’re sitting beside You never know who you’re taking for a ride What? I take people for a ride?

LET GO! CALL MAGIC!
But he just wouldn’t let go of it. He said he’d never do anything but he wouldn’t stop saying what he wouldn’t do. I couldn’t stop him.
CALL MAGIC! Not now. CALL MAGIC! I’m too busy. And I came around the corner of the building,
I saw embedded in the wall
a shell, a pearl, I did NOT see the footprints of the dog though. Hey!
And then I passed three men at the side of the road smoking.
And then I passed a couple talking.
Marry me. I can’t marry you. Marry me. I won’t marry you. You make me feel almost sleazy! It’s not that you judge
I don’t feel like you do
It’s just how wobbly my spine feels when I stand next to you
I pick up the phone. I don’t call you. I pick up the phone. I don’t call you. Marry me. I won’t marry you
Mmuh schmuh! Why doesn’t he just marry her?
LET GO! But I didn’t understand, you see. She was just asking about integrity. And my judgement of this couple started to make me feel soooo sleepy. As if I’d been running through a field of self-vampirizing poppies (the poppies being me).
CALL MAGIC! CALL MAGIC! CALL MAGIC! CALL MAGIC!
Like that?
No.
Muh... Magic...
OK. MAGIC!!!
And to my great surprise a big black dog came bounding towards me. Wha? Is this Magic?
You want me to take Magic for a walk? So Magic and I started walking towards the next village. We passed three men – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. We passed three children – they were humming at the side of a field and the field was beginning to change, to come back to life. And I felt like I’d had bandaids ripped from my eyes and I was so ... GRATEFUL?
Not exactly. NOT EXACTLY! NOT EXACTLY!