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Fascinations, Invisibility, 
Levitation, Transmutations, Kinks in Time 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Dear me! dear me! The world's indeed gone topsy-tUIVY if 
you have to ask me for the secrets of Fascination! Altogether 
tohu-bohu and the Temurah Thash raq! 
So much for a display of Old-World Courtly Manners; 
actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating 
without knowing how you worked the trick. In fact, I think 
that is the case ninety-nine times in a hundred. 
Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I overlooked the 
phrase in which you mention that you use the word as Levi 
did; i.e., to cover all those types of "miracle" which depend 
on distracting the attention of, or otherwise composing, the 
miraclee-I invent a rather useful word, yes? 
So let us see what sort of miracles those are. 
To start with, I doubt if we can. Many of such 
thaumaturgic 
phenomena contain elements of illusion in 
greater or less degree; if the miraclee's mind is 100 percent 
responsible, I think the business becomes a mere conjuring 
trick . 
My dictionary defines the verb: "to charm, to enchant; to 
act on by some irresistible influence; to captivate; to excite 
and allure irresistibly or powerfully. " 
For the noun it gets even deeper into technical Magic: "the 
act or power of fascinating or spellbinding, often to one's 
harm; 
a mysterious, 
irresistible, 
alluring influence." 
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