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“Fantasy—and that old black magic”    Evening Standard, London

© September 23, 1969

Gavin Ewart

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“We go back in time. At 14 he has taken a very complete course in the fine and applied arts with Mr. Loupa, a volcanic Italian, who teaches him to mix his own colours in the manner of the Old Masters...In a book by a 17th-century Polish magician, Jozef Casimir, [he] finds a recipe for raising angels and even God himself. He successfully produces an angel.”