Today’s useful spells begin with the letter C. The first is Comprehend Languages – clearly of terrific use to me in understanding what people are saying here (assuming, of course, that I am interested in what they say). This would provide great opportunities in my career by bringing into reliable English some of the many so far untranslated texts of the world – I doubt there would be much money in it but fame could be built that way. Contact Other Plane, on the other hand, could perhaps be used to demonstrate to the Skeptics that there are many gods in the multiverse and that they should pay me the one million dollar prize for proving their existence – it would be necessary to be clever in doing this as there may need to be some kind of Turing Test for Divinities. All kinds of Cure spells could be used to make money – people will pay cold cash to feel well again and perhaps it would be possible to use them for some sort of cosmetic surgery or gender reassignment. This kind of business would probably work best dressed up as a kind of Christian fundamentalist scam – but one which actually did work. Call Lightning could be used to win money via gambling – bet that a football match will end goalless, for example, and then bring out the lightning to smash up the ground and force the abandonment of the game at the desired score. Some years ago, it was said with I think some proof that gambling rings had done something similar by blowing up the lights at some Premier League grounds.

Nothing much seems to be happening today – the western world is closing down for end of year celebrations and while we continue as normal here, the work I do that is locally-based is not of interest in this blog.

Quote of the day from Blake’s Four Zoas:

“Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul

Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry

The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy

Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it

But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy

Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus

Every moment of my secret hours.”

The complete works are online at: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/erdman.html.

Back tomorrow. Contact me, if you wish, at heavilysaltedcheese@yahoo.co.uk.