Not necessarily. And they won't be accurate - not always - but is magic? Hardly.
It's the sensation of being unaware of the passing of time when you are confined to a room of articifical light, magic made or man made (though arguably the two are the same, just depending on if a wizard or a muggle were the originator and thus changing the light's source), for long periods of time. You may have a watch, the indicators of time which should show you how to react, perhaps the most finely tuned biological clock and rhythms...
And still, your conception of time, your understanding of the common reality we agree upon and it's place in time will mutate.
...They are graphic, by nature. A window is not something you "feel" through. You "see" through it for a reason. Possibly because putting a boot through every window to "feel" them would just get expensive after a while.
Yet it all is to determine one's place relative to the greater, in this case time or the world in time. Humans in that aspect are weak; they must constantly reaffirm their positions in the power relations, in their groups in order to feel they belong.
Strange, though, how we say we "see through" a window. That is assuming the window contains a barrier to one's boot.
Think of it this way, if you shall - while we are weak in our need for community, and the power struggle which occurs within that community, we are also laboring under an often mistaken idea that we are aware of what surrounds us.
Window, in etomology, comes from "Eye" in the old romantic tongues. So what is a window, but an eye that we must choose to see through? Our own two eyes, which are granted to us at birth, can be poetically anazlyed, listed as "windows" to our "souls"... They are lenses we choose to see through.
Because it is not just the window's view that is important - as you point out, we say that we have looked 'through' a window, rather than at - but the frame and context of the window itself which influences what is see through it - what our window, our lense, is meant to show.
If you make a habit of choosing to put your boot through windows only without barriers, then you are either lucky, or residing in places condenscendingly referred to as less than civilized or abandoned.
Hm. Your position is rather well-thought out. The sorting hat can be correct after all.
If I were to put my boot through a window, I would choose either a ground- or first-floor window; or if it weren't, I would take my broomstick with me.
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It's the sensation of being unaware of the passing of time when you are confined to a room of articifical light, magic made or man made (though arguably the two are the same, just depending on if a wizard or a muggle were the originator and thus changing the light's source), for long periods of time. You may have a watch, the indicators of time which should show you how to react, perhaps the most finely tuned biological clock and rhythms...
And still, your conception of time, your understanding of the common reality we agree upon and it's place in time will mutate.
...They are graphic, by nature. A window is not something you "feel" through. You "see" through it for a reason. Possibly because putting a boot through every window to "feel" them would just get expensive after a while.
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Strange, though, how we say we "see through" a window. That is assuming the window contains a barrier to one's boot.
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Window, in etomology, comes from "Eye" in the old romantic tongues. So what is a window, but an eye that we must choose to see through? Our own two eyes, which are granted to us at birth, can be poetically anazlyed, listed as "windows" to our "souls"... They are lenses we choose to see through.
Because it is not just the window's view that is important - as you point out, we say that we have looked 'through' a window, rather than at - but the frame and context of the window itself which influences what is see through it - what our window, our lense, is meant to show.
If you make a habit of choosing to put your boot through windows only without barriers, then you are either lucky, or residing in places condenscendingly referred to as less than civilized or abandoned.
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If I were to put my boot through a window, I would choose either a ground- or first-floor window; or if it weren't, I would take my broomstick with me.
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Sounds like extrenuating circumstances would have come home to roost.
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