If you think of the universe as a system of bodies they consume energy to produce change, and you diefy the idea of energy, all magic is theophagy.
“Divers push on into the blackness with fine margins for error – often turned back by chokes or deadings-out – entering unmapped areas of the mountain’s interior that are referred to, in an echo of nineteenth-century imperialcartography, as ‘blank space’. George Mallory famously answered the question of 'Why climb Everest?’ with 'Because it’s there.’ Extreme cavers jokingly modify Mallory’s answer when asked why they risk theirlives for an ultra-deep cave system, with the words 'Because it’s not there.’”
— Robert Macfarlane, Underland: a Deep Time Journey
