icelandiconjury

from Steve Venright ~ Lexiconjury: A magical linguistic art, the practice of which enables the adept to materialize words out of thin air. The surprising results of this process — which is revealed only by direct initiation or accident — can be used for oracular, incantatory, conversational, or poetic purposes. William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and Lewis Carroll are exemplars of sophisticated lexiconjury in the Western world. Speaking-in-tongues is a laudable art brut style of lexiconjury. Terence McKenna, an inspired lexiconjuror himself, says this: "I don’t believe that the world is made of quarks and electromagnetic waves, or stars, or planets, or any of these things. I believe the world is made of language."

thank you to everyone who conjured with the philadelphians and who shared icelandic sagas at yesterday's second last lex. speaking of iceland, the world music polypoetry festival starts on friday in reykjavik; w. mark sutherland is the canadian contingent this year.