01-20-2011, 12:00 AM
This is sure a piece of journalism! Look how it directs the reader along a route that slowly but surely leads one to have a fixed POV of this guy. I'm on my way out the door for work and would much rather like to underline those experiences or points of view here that aren't any different for many a fine sorcerer in the making---dreaming, emphasis on words and their power, life as meaning something different than for the average person, illusion vs. reality, flying, feeling trapped in societal norms, etc. All of these things, I've experienced and felt and thought. So where did Jered cross the line? I'm not sure he did, really. He fulfilled the meaning he'd assigned to his life and although he pulled others into his "darkness" and tragically denied them life, he's on the path he's chosen. CC might say, "he lost his marbles" and now society will spend days, weeks, even years trying to figure out what went "wrong". He entertained a handful of "tricks"---tricks in the practice of sorcery, much like we all do---yet, his prescription for those skills and practices ended on the end of the spectrum that all of us work at never crossing.