what is it like to be a bat
But magic is just this very other logic, from the perspective of a creature from the perspective of a bodied being, like you, like me, down here, in the depths of this blooming, buzzing proliferation of colour and shape and texture and olfactory essences, riding past our noses, wherein some things are always hidden behind other things, because
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What is it like to be a bee? It is certainly not like being a tiny human with wings, a sting, and an appetite for nectar. It is something very different indeed. For every being comes a unique set of sensory apparatuses that filter and interpret the world. Imagine that you had five eyes. Feel those extra eyes on your head. Eyes covered in fine hair,
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As the ability to step out of the singular umwelt of one's particular species and make contact with another shape of sensitivity, another style of sentience, which verges on—and I mean, let's keep holding all these things close—what for me is maybe the most profound sense of magic...