"The book is a magic carpet that transports readers to different places," he explains.
Here, in theory, is true power, unhindered by responsibility; the plane is a magic carpet.
"It's a magic carpet ride," said Dr. Weinstein, 54, a dentist from Long Beach, whose plane is among the 500 private aircraft kept at Republic.
Together, the old priest and the boy lie on a Persian rug and wish it were a magic carpet; it is not just Mark who is in need of flight.
"Magnolia" is a magic carpet ride through the Valley, gracefully gliding among a number of different stories, all involving lonely, isolated people and building to a mystical climax that unites the characters in a shared, preposterous experience.
I mean, we did it in six weeks, with a dream cast, none of whom were really making any money and, well... making it was a magic carpet ride.
"A Card Collection is a magic carpet that takes you away from work-a-day cares to havens of relaxing quietude where you can relive the pleasures and adventures of a past day — brought to life in vivid picture and prose," Burdick wrote in the introduction to the 1960 edition of the American Card Catalog, which he first published under a different title in 1939.
It's a magic carpet we're building on, and if we just look at it through the eyes of a brand new day, we're sure to invent things that will in turn drive the next wave of devices.
Pretend a rock is a car or that plane in the sky is a magic carpet on its way to you.
