Sublime

1. Curate With Extreme Prejudice

The conceit was successful for Bamberg. Silence was much more startling when Horace Goldin, a plump American magician at the turn of the twentieth century, deliberately began performing without speaking. Wearing a white tie and tails, Goldin, the "Whirlwind Illusionist," dashed onstage to present magic at breakneck speed-no time for talking-filling

There was Captain Peter Moore, a small man, Dalí's business manager, on the end of a lead being led by an ocelot

I never had much respect for Tom Scott’s ability to accomplish any great undertaking. He can give everybody a Pass, and get them to say he is a “big Injun” and good fellow—but he is not the man to lay down a Hundred or Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Cash, to carry a scheme of his own. . . . [Gould is] the reverse of Scott; he is a one man power;

older brother, Alfred, who had also worked as a magician, continued Stodare's show and performed several variations on the Sphinx illusion,and other performers soon copied the effect. But the famous Egyptian head was never more successful than under the supervision of this dashing and dramatic originator.

Money is fungible. Every dollar is the same. It doesn’t matter where money comes from—our job, an inheritance, a lottery ticket, a bank robbery, or our gig moonlighting as the bassist in a jazz quartet (dare to dream)—the money is all ours and it belongs, in fact, to the general “our money” account.