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The performer will invariably dance around dishonesty rather than embrace it, indulging in a series of tiny untruths, not big lies.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Morritt's Cage and deKolta's Vanishing Lady.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
The real art is how the rubber band is handled with the finesse of a jewel cutter, how a mirror is used or concealed precisely, how a masterfulperformer can hint at impossibilities that are consummated with only a piece of thread.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
In many ways this first experiment was a slavish copy of Maskelyne's "Will, the Witch and the Watchman" cabinet. Morritt used the same arrangement of mirrors, the same sharp wedge formed by 90- and 45-degree angles, which was just large enough to contain a person.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Early in his career he was famous for his manipulations with billiard balls or silk handkerchiefs. A famous Buatier deKolta sequence involved the production of small, variously colored silk handkerchiefsat his fingertips. He then showed two porcelain soup bowls, placing them mouth-to-mouth on his table.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
This book is about how it feels to be a magician-no dainty Robertson Davies concoction, but a man with saw cuts and rope burns on his hands and a fire in his soul for the devious art of putting the impossible on a stage.