• Three Lessons in Magic for Boys
• i
• in scientific terms
• (towards which i know
• boys may be inclined),
• an understanding of magic begins
• when we acknowledge that
• the foundation of our world is built
• not of particles,
• but of sensation
• ii
• among magic scholars,
• teenage girls are the most devout:
• observe them musing upon books of
• holographic stickers,
• celebrity gossip,
• perfume samples in magazines,
• and other people’s diaries
• iii
• to tell someone that
• they have put a spell on you
• is, itself, a spell