Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
("Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect," Teller says.)
Chris Jones • Chris Jones on How Teller Got His Magic Back
An effective performance creates “a kind of hiccup in the texture of everyday life”, reckons Jason Leddington, a philosophy professor at Bucknell University. People still crave that. As Houdini once put it, without wonder, “we should find life scarcely worth living.”
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