Doing well enough, though every muscle in my body is reminding me I am not as young as I used to be. I did not make it to lunch, either; I am lazing about. (And building quite the nest of books in bed with me, fact-checking the lecture for the theoretical classes this week -- we are covering how wizarding thought on the Arts changed in reaction to Christian influence, from the First Council of Nicaea to the Protestant schism, and that's quite a lot of material to shove into a single hour. If only I could rely on Binns to convey the essentials ... ah, but that's a rant for another evening.)
How is Raz feeling? He said a few things earlier in message that made me fret a bit; save your care-taking for that direction, really. I don't need much more than some extra sleep and some heat and gentle stretching.
There is no rush on the data; we are both well swamped with intellectual hares to flush from cover. As for the variety of mechanisms on binding magics -- fascinating, is it not? No one is entirely certain how half the subtleties work; there have been dozens of contradicting interpretations advanced throughout the years, and though half of them have been disproven, the other half are still quite plausible. I like to think those are one of the categories of magic that tap into an older, deeper magic, one more numinous than the settled and tamed forms we practise more regularly. Would be happy to discuss at future date. (And, yes, teach you about the warding as well -- impressive, isn't it? Much of my mother's magic reads so to Western eyes. And is responsible for my touch of mysticism, one supposes, as the line between 'prayer' and 'magic' is much more blurred.)
My love to Razzer, and thanks once again to you both for your help in making my point, T
Re: Private message to Antosha
Doing well enough, though every muscle in my body is reminding me I am not as young as I used to be. I did not make it to lunch, either; I am lazing about. (And building quite the nest of books in bed with me, fact-checking the lecture for the theoretical classes this week -- we are covering how wizarding thought on the Arts changed in reaction to Christian influence, from the First Council of Nicaea to the Protestant schism, and that's quite a lot of material to shove into a single hour. If only I could rely on Binns to convey the essentials ... ah, but that's a rant for another evening.)
How is Raz feeling? He said a few things earlier in message that made me fret a bit; save your care-taking for that direction, really. I don't need much more than some extra sleep and some heat and gentle stretching.
There is no rush on the data; we are both well swamped with intellectual hares to flush from cover. As for the variety of mechanisms on binding magics -- fascinating, is it not? No one is entirely certain how half the subtleties work; there have been dozens of contradicting interpretations advanced throughout the years, and though half of them have been disproven, the other half are still quite plausible. I like to think those are one of the categories of magic that tap into an older, deeper magic, one more numinous than the settled and tamed forms we practise more regularly. Would be happy to discuss at future date. (And, yes, teach you about the warding as well -- impressive, isn't it? Much of my mother's magic reads so to Western eyes. And is responsible for my touch of mysticism, one supposes, as the line between 'prayer' and 'magic' is much more blurred.)
My love to Razzer, and thanks once again to you both for your help in making my point,
T