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

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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