But Just Saying It Could Even Make It Happen
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A professor steeped in post-Enlightenment rationalism may still reach to touch wood (where capricious spirits were said to reside) after describing an outcome not guaranteed. An entrepreneur on the train reads Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret; wonders if motivation, perspiration and inspiration are not as important as visualisation and articulation to bring him the luxury Fiat he desires and deserves. Mark Twain notes that he was born under Halley's comet, posits he will die when it returns, breathes his last as it skims past Earth.God creates the universe with an utterance, illuminates it with another. Lil B announces a curse on James Harden, causing the Rockets' loss to the Warriors in the 2015 Western Conference Finals. I make an art show about magical language, because I said I would, and because it began with a title that rendered it inevitable.
I just know that something good is gonna happen / I don’t know when / but just saying it could even make it happen.’ - Kate Bush, ‘Cloudbusting’ (1985)