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“Divination is human imagination, and the way we do that now is primarily through nominalization, which creates new objects. Look at what happened above: the verbs “do” and “happen” morphed into the nouns “doings” and “happenings,” and this happened as soon as it became possible to examine the relationship between them.”

— Adam Katz, Technology and Magic, Doings and Happenings · Jan 2018 · GABlog