Language of Magic/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''I had a professor in college who read Anglo-Saxon like he'd grown up with it. This was the language of "[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]", a rolling, singsong way of speaking, full of portent. Like thunder, rumbling for miles over a windswept plain. After the passage of time, this professor explained, ancient languages become the language of magic, the meanings forgotten but the power of them remembered. The Catholic Church [[Ominous Latin Chanting|could chant Latin]], and it didn't matter that no one knew what the words meant a thousand years later. He'd been speaking metaphorically. But he was right.''|''[[Kitty Norville|Kitty Goes to War]]''}}