The Magic Flute Puns

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Edit: I remember the physical book was quite small, like maybe the size of a cell phone, but around 3 inches thick or something like that.

We, human beings, can influence the brain wiring of another anatomical being near us simply with the words, tone, or even gestures we make. We are capable of causing scientific changes in the chemistry of that being. We can even do this to people across waters on other bodies of land (through computer systems). Choose a certain hand movements or facial expressions, and you might cause serotonin rises in the brain of another being watching you. Choose a specific series of words, input them into a computer that someone on a different spot of Planet Earth is watching through a digital screen, and you might cause brain wiring changes in that organism.

Magic is, to this point in our universe where we still know so little, merely any phenomena we don’t understand. We are capable of influencing all sorts of matter around us that isn’t within our bodies or minds.

Ages ago, being able to move a curtain without touching it (by waving your hand swiftly near it) may have seemed like magic. Now we understand that happens because when we do that, we cause waves or movements in the particles or matter between our hand and the matter that forms that curtain, causing the curtain to move.

For all we know, in other galaxies it might be within the laws of physics to control matter in ways that aren’t within the laws of physics here - ways we wouldn’t imagine possible. We just don’t know it yet because we only understand the laws of physics on this planet at this point in time.

Humans can cause all sorts of anatomical changes in matter around their bodies, and matter far away. And it’s quite possible we can do far more than we understand yet. We are always capable of new types of “magic”, they just stop being “magic” once we understand them.

It's a 3 hour play and I was wondering if any of you has identified where the theme that Sor used for his piece can be found. Even if I listen to the whole thing chances are I'll miss it.

Thanks

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for ages, so I really want it to be my tune

Here’s a reference clip btw: https://youtu.be/J9AHuM300fY from 15 seconds

The main character was the daughter of a woman who was an herbalist or seeress of some sort, I don't remember. The daughter keeps trying to find her gift, but it just comes in flashes. Then she runs into her father, who her mother wants nothing to do with. Her father has a flute, which he can play to influence people (eg make them sleep, not notice him, etc. He even played a man to death, by planting the suggestion with music for his heart to stop.) The daughter and someone else have to inflitrate a castle or are captured or something. Escaping, the daughter has to use her father's flute to calm a water-serpent, which is how she discovers that she ended up with her father's magic gift, not her mother's. It says she never played the flute again.

Read probably 8 or so years ago, was in the teen fiction section of the library. I think it's four books but I could be wrong on that. One of the books has a flute on the cover.

Somewhat new to opera (only been to see 4 so far), but so far have loved them all. Been wanting to see The Magic Flute for a while. It's coming to my city this spring, but they are doing it in English not the original German. I was very disappointed when I found that out. Am I just being pretentious? Anyone seen it performed both ways? Or in English? Thoughts?