In the Mary Poppins clip, Mary takes the children to see Uncle Alfred, who is addicted to laughter. When Uncle Alfred laughs, he seems to obtain some type of power and floats straight up to the ceiling, bobbing and spinning about with some magic. Throughout the clip Mary Poppins is the voice of reason against Uncle Alfred's madness, but in the end we see that she also has some special power as she sends the table up to the ceiling to meet the group. " I supposed you expect me to pour it out. Well if I must, I must", she says. I think it refers to how in many situations you can't always carry about the way you are used to, and have to mold your behavior to your settings. Sometimes you just have to allow yourself to explore all possibilities of things
This is very similar to the play Idiot Savant, staring William Defoe. In the play, we are allowed a small glimpse into the mind of an autistic genius. In the play, one of female roles asks the idiot savant "what makes a word magical?" This relates back to the Mary Poppins clip, in which anything that can make Uncle Alfred and the children laugh, they are filled with magic to float upward. But clearly it is only the certain words, the words that can make them laugh that has the magic, similarly to what was said in the play. All words have this magic, but how one interprets those words decides how the magic is released. That magic can paint a special image, and there is "no image like the image of language". The swirls of colors created with this magical dusting of consonants and vowel sounds. The nature of language is simply this magic displayed through human thoughts and human actions. Sometimes through ones thoughts comes "then the idea I was not finished", which once again I believe to be a misinterpretation of the magic.
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