Sublime

It took one hour and ten minutes for Houdini to play all the parts: outsider, bounder, conniver, then victim, gentleman, hero.

Consider the important information the faith healers keep to themselves. They cannot cure anything organic (anything involving physical change to some tissue or organ of the body). Some people will feel pain relief; that is all. The rest is showmanship. All claims to have cured cancer or anything else are simply false. And the money you give makes

In reality, his ‘one last snip’ trick does nothing to improve my hair – he admitted he doesn’t even cut any hair during this routine, but it does a lot to improve my perception that he’s done a thorough job. This is the power of a ‘psychological moonshot’, a term coined by Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland.

Mulholland developed two manuals: Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception and Recognition Signals. The first was based on close-up, sleight-of-hand moves used by magicians, adjusted slightly for in-field use,

On the street, artists succeed or fail by virtue of their raw ability to create a show in unexpected circumstances, to thoroughly entertain an audience that did not expect to be one, and to make random people care for a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGS2byt4kZ8

Typically, I found a loophole in the system: