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“If you look at most female archetypes—the mother, the virgin, the whore—their power comes from their relation to men. But not the Witch. The Witch derives her power from nature. She calls forth her dreams with spells and incantations. With poetry. And I think that’s why we are frightened of them. What’s scarier to the world of men than a woman limited only by her imagination?�
Since his grandmother’s funeral, he realized that when people tell stories about the dead, they create life in reverse. What’s remembered about a person becomes what was real about them after they’re gone.
“Weapons only destroy, my dear. Instruments, however, both destroy and create. That’s what makes them so powerful. The holy grail, Pandora’s box, the genie’s lamp; all were sources of etherea. If you look, really look, history is full of instruments that make the unreal real, that call forth power from nothing.�
