Grimoires and Assorted Texts Mentioned
Blish says in his foreword that all of the magical works and quotations mentioned in the text actually exist, as do the magical symbols reproduced, and "there are no Necronomicons or other such invented works"
- Ars Magna by Ramon Llull
- The Nullity of Magic by Roger Bacon
- The Book of Ceremonial Magic by C. A. E. Waite
- Enchiridion of Leo III
- The Effects of Atomic Weapons by the U.S. Government Printing Office
- The Book of the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup
- Grand Grimoire
- Grimorium Verum
- Clavicula Salomonis
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
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Famous quotes containing the words assorted, texts and/or mentioned:
“Bill: I have champagne, caviar, marinated truffles, brilliant foie gras and half-a-dozen assorted Hungarian gypsies.
Lili: Sounds delicious.
Bill: I thought we’d go on a picnic.
Lili: At three in the morning?
Bill: It’s the best time—no ants.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)