Sublime

“Well, then we should investigate!” Mrs. Rachwitz said, encouraging me to follow my gut. She suggested I do some more research, but she framed it as a quest.

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When Steinmeyer writes about the theater a century ago, he speaks as one who's met modern versions of the characters, who's even reconstructed their tricks onstage. So when, for example, he describes David Devant's Mascot Moth (which Steinmeyer reproduced in Doug Henning's Merlin),

My hurried movements caused silent alarms to ring in her head, telling her, Something’s fishy. It’s not that she was particularly perceptive; anyone watching me would have assumed the same.

On a practical level, Maurice had simply reversed the equation. Stand the actor on the stage. On top of him, reflect the image of a portion of an empty room. The actor disappears.But on the level of marvels, it was an astonishing idea. After all, for centuries, mirrors

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To me, the shop was an informal institution filled with sacred knowledge. To others, we just sold tricks.