E 19 In Literature: • Terry Kay, The Valley of Light (200 ) • "[A] great light broke over his face. 'Eureka!' he cried. 'At last, at last! After all these years! . . . I found it! We've done it! We're successful, we're famous, we're heroes!" -- Edward Eager, Magic by the Lake (1957) Evanesco Origins: Evanesco is from the Latin word meaning "to vanish." In Literature: • Evanesco is a vanishing spell used in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (200 ). Except Mystique: "One and one will always equal two. Everything in creation follows a rigid set of physical laws -- everything, except . . . Except. Ah, what a magical word. In those six simple letters lie all the possibilities of the imagination."16 Exercise Mystique: "No means are known whereby the faculties of the mind can be developed but by exercising them. By the potent spell of the magic word Exercise, is evoked all human power. The proof of this proposition is found in multitudes of facts."17 16 Jim Brown, Black Valley (200 ) 17 James Pyle Wickersham, Methods of Instruction (1865)