magicalthinkingsThe Crucible is a big play about big themes. It addresses weighty issues such as faith and superstition, collective hysteria and paranoia, the price of integrity, the explosive anarchic power of repressed sexuality, the cost of infidelity, and the way scapegoats serve to maintain social order and bolster shaky notions of piety. Not having seen [...]
I’m writing this on Friday 13th, and so far, my world hasn’t caved in. Superstition is magical thinking, a causality that is not grounded in reality. We knock on wood, we cross our fingers, we say “Please God” if we hear ourselves state something good is definitely going to happen, as if we are [...]
Magical thinking is a dangerous thing. The subtle sensor of the psyche that monitors the way the wind is going, the anemometer of fate. Plain sailing or the perfect storm? What lies ahead when you get out of bed on the wrong side? Can you go back and change the way one’s day goes, its [...]
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