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The Gripper's Life and Work
The three books circulate widely and manuscript for a very long time, but then again with the democratization of magic that's happening in the British Isles in the 17th century. So nowadays a lot of intellectual historians try to frame the study of a gripper and his works as this resolving this tension between how can a guy in his youth write this like one of the greatest encyclopedias of Western magic? And then 20 years later, finally publish a thing that says all learning is nonsense. That was definitely something that dogged him perpetually throughout his career. But I think it's an immensely important project. Can it be used to do magic? Absolutely. We have evidence, my favorite cases,