Writing—An Act of Magic

Writing—An Act of Magic By Rob Parnell You have thoughts. You write them down as words. Later, others read them and your thoughts become theirs. Spooky, eh? I’m sure it was once, when the Druids roamed prehistoric Europe, exchanging information in the form of archaic symbols. I imagine the illiterate masses looked on with awe and not a little fear, convinced these markings the magicians called "words" had power in themselves. It’s interesting that the echo of the magical context of writ