Roger/Rachel/Alex: Art/Magic/Cosmology

[Felix]

I came across this the other day and thought thought of you. It covers a lot of wild terrain with an impassioned if unpredictable gait, and I thought that you might find the journey rewarding. Others may as well.

http://www.eddiecampbellcomics.com/birthcaul/alan1.html

 

[Gingersnap]

Is he your brother Felix? He sounds an awful lot like you.

 

[Laurel]

FELIX!

Great to see you! How've you been?

 

[KillerMuffin]

FELIX!!!!!!!

 

[alexander tzara]

Hello, there, Felix. I'll go check out that link later. I really like Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' graphic novel (they're working on a film version just now). But, as soon as he starts talking about Chaos Magic, I start thinking: Uhm... ok... very nice, Alan... So, tell me how you broke into comics writing.

Good to see you back, Felix. Pop in again sometime and we can discuss my updated theories on time and relativity which have the science community in a bit of an uproar at the moment.

 

[Felix]

I really like Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' graphic novel

Watchmen is one of his many outstanding works. Personally, I am inordinately amused by one of his less famous projects: D.R. and Quinch.

(they're working on a film version just now).

I've got no special hot line to Irving Thalberg, but as far as I know that project -- though widely rumored and occasionally attempted -- is about as dead as things can get in Hollywood terms. I would never say never, but chances are you'll see Peter Jackson's Simarillion first.

But, as soon as he starts talking about Chaos Magic, I start thinking: Uhm... ok... very nice, Alan... So, tell me how you broke into comics writing.

I'm afraid that a man in an owl costume would qualify as a bastion of normalcy in the context of this article. Now that I think about it, I suppose it did in the Watchmen as well, but for better or worse this interview plunges headlong through madness and into...well, I'll leave that for you to decide.

Good to see you back, Felix. Pop in again sometime and we can discuss my updated theories on time and relativity which have the science community in a bit of an uproar at the moment.

Thanks. I can't predict how much I'll be around, but if your theory survives its encounter with Glycon I'd be glad to hear it. This isn't the one about the pickles, is it?

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Felix the Cat
The wonderful wonderful cat
Whenever he gets in a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks ...

Alex ... are you still kicking around, luv? not again with your theories on relativity dear .... <snooooooze> .... hee hee hee ...

and btw i'll take Canadian Beaver Tails for $1000 please Alex ...

 

[Felix]

Is he your brother Felix? He sounds an awful lot like you.

No such luck, I'm afraid, though it would have spiced up wedding receptions and holiday dinners if he were. Just think -- I'd have been the quiet, sensible one.

 

[Felix]

Felix the Cat
The wonderful wonderful cat
Whenever he gets in a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks ...

I'm afraid the feline Felix is another one of my more accomplished nonrelations. I don't even wear black.

As it happens, however, I actually was for a time the possessor of what was generally referred to as "the magic bag." Though unremarkable in appearance, the bag and its unlikely contents time and again preserved the health, happiness -- and on certain grim occasions, even the sanity -- of a band of travellers in strange and savage lands. No matter how improbable the need or desperate the circumstances, I invariably was able to draw forth the precise item a situation demanded.

Like any good magician, I guarded my secrets, but my companions themselves became increasing superstitious about not breaking the spell and refused to look inside or even touch the bag. Over a period of weeks the "magic bag" went from ironic jest to revered relic; if we had needed a herd of elephants, people would have half-seriously expected it to supply it. By the end of the journey, I didn't even need to open the bag for its power to manifest -- merely verifying that I still carried it visibly bolstered my friends during the dicier moments.

It was very interesting to see how quickly otherwise rational people came to have genuine awe for such an unlikely talisman. Even I (who had packed it and knew its contents) began to feel that I could simply reach in and pull out whatever improbable item I required. It really was quite a remarkable experience -- it's as close I as am likely to come to living in a cartoon world (Los Angeles excepted, of course). I'm not like likely to start parading around with saints' finger bones or finding Madonnas in tortillas, but it does provide a glimpse of how such things emerge.

 

[Felix]

FELIX!!!!!!!

I see that in my absence you you have become a Literotica doyenne, KM. Daunting though the task is, I will attempt to make up with profligacy what I will never match in prolificacy.