8.20.2006

spells on the wall

It was rather disconcerting to find that someone had posted a magic spell on our bulletin board at work. a shoddily photocopied sigil of an upside-down pentagram surrounded by almost illegible hebrew letters above a cutup poem that claimed to be "a piece of machinery for the advent of the meat-eating masses backstroke" with a bunch of seeming drivel, including something about the inferno of Liza Minelli, and ending with a call for the targets of the spell (presumably meat-eaters?) to get cleft lips for christmas. i won't reprint the whole of it here, as it was put in a public place it probably works mimetically and i don't want to inadvertently infect anyone with it. and who knows what the intentions of the poster were, if it was just some random piece of junk someone put up or if they really do want to give people cleft lips, and are fully capable of doing so. either way, it bothered me on some deep level, enough that i didn't even take it down because who knows what sort of wards people put up on these kind of things. i've seen too much to take any bit of random symbols and mumbling as just that. they have a power only at the edges of our comprehension.

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