When I visited him in 1954 in San Francisco, he was the first person I knew with The Lord of the Rings high on his shelves. He loved Lotte Lenya's singing of the Berlin and New York theatre songs of Kurt Weill. He loved George Macdonald's At the Back of the North Wind and Lilith. He was the first of my friends to recognize the special genius of Louis Zukofsky, and of the Scots poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay. I got out of bed and opened it.
Mages do what they do.