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Oct. 11th, 2015 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliA circus is coming to town. . . except they don't call it a circus -- and I have to define its acts --
Knowing for certain only one thing, namely there will be no stage magic. Since there is operative magic in the world, it would be like trying to fake a clock or something on stage in ours.
There are jugglers, and a kind of tightrope walker -- operative magic means you have to make it more impressive, a dance on spiderweb, but still a tightrope walker -- and dancing bears, and a fortune teller (prediction being a weak branch of magic, not respectable at all), and. . . hmmm. . . tame animal shows, but much more impressive than ours because -- ta da! -- you can use magic.
Perhaps a pageant. There were traveling companies of actors, and it's the sort of world where those things are not sharply distinguished.
That does, however, need a story that will serve the (not very nice) purposes of the trope, and furthermore, echo the themes of the novel. hmmm
Knowing for certain only one thing, namely there will be no stage magic. Since there is operative magic in the world, it would be like trying to fake a clock or something on stage in ours.
There are jugglers, and a kind of tightrope walker -- operative magic means you have to make it more impressive, a dance on spiderweb, but still a tightrope walker -- and dancing bears, and a fortune teller (prediction being a weak branch of magic, not respectable at all), and. . . hmmm. . . tame animal shows, but much more impressive than ours because -- ta da! -- you can use magic.
Perhaps a pageant. There were traveling companies of actors, and it's the sort of world where those things are not sharply distinguished.
That does, however, need a story that will serve the (not very nice) purposes of the trope, and furthermore, echo the themes of the novel. hmmm