Magic is real. The only thing really in question is when you stop calling it science and start calling it sorcery - but depending on how you get there that could be just about anywhere. Personally I've taken to calling most things both.
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.