You are going to win, you are sure to succeed, you will have a new power.

Astrologers in pointing to stars and maps used sticks, of course, schoolmasters do so even today. If Seers and Necromancers of old and of later times claimed that the implement was essential in their ritualistic simulachres, so do we.

The visions that appeared to me when I closed my eyes became a dream and then transformed into a blueprint. If everything I wanted was impossible for me then I would become a magician because a magician can do anything.

He was revived in a field hospital and suffered from severe shell shock. During his recovery he would ask for playing cards and practiced non-stop. Thinking he was mentally ill for wearing gloves and repeating the same manipulations with cards all day the doctors had him incarcerated in a mental hospital in Southhampton, England.

Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he started to push himself, trying to come back to life, feeling the fire that flows through the veins of men who want to push beyond their own limitations. A fire that nothing and no one can extinguish. Proof that life is stronger than death and that love is stronger than pain.