[UA] Magick and the New Deal?

[Paul Tevis]

It's set at beginning of the Depression rather than the end, but I'd
recommend the short story "Hotel Astarte" by M.K. Hobson. There's an
audio recording of it on Pod Castle at
http://podcastle.org/2008/05/06/pc006-hotel-astarte/

--Paul

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:49 AM, David M Jacobs
<davidmichaeljacobs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/12 Tim Groth <tim.groth at gmail.com>:
>
>
> >
> > Now, with the New Deal there is an effort to alter the way that money
> > and all the things it represents interacts with the common person in
> > order to alter the metaphysical context of the magick that is flowing
> > out of cash.  Maybe it was too late and Plutomancy could rise up.  Or
> > maybe it managed to make Plutomancy into something instead of the
> > blackest of magicks.
> >
>
> With all this talk of FDR, the New Deal, Plutomancy, the True King and the
> Demagogue, I'm surprised that no one's brought up the Business Plot yet.
> After all, if you're after a Plutomancer plot (complete with Butler's
> unwilling Demagogue figurehead), then it fits the bill pretty precisely.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
>
>
> --
> David M Jacobs
> davidmichaeljacobs at gmail.com
>
> "[N]ever hide a gun in a cat box. Some moron cat would manage to fire it."
> -- Tim Powers.
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