Sublime

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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.

In his book Tricks of the Mind, legendary British magician Derren Brown dissects a simple coin illusion based on the justification principle.

Houdini soon became magic’s most recognizable figure—and one of the most egotistical. He publicly boasted that no magician could fool him if he saw the effect three times. Many magicians tried and failed to best the king of their craft. That all changed in 1919, when a young man approached Houdini and asked to show him a card trick. He had Houdini

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Over a hundred years before Robert-Houdin appeared on a stage, magicians had exhibited automaton trees that, through a combination of clockworks, compressed air, or pull-strings, gave the impression of blooming flowers or growing fruit. For hundreds of years magicians had offered sleight of hand with eggs or lemons, or destroyed a borrowed handkerc

“the king of gamblers,” Nick the Greek.

The performer will invariably dance around dishonesty rather than embrace it, indulging in a series of tiny untruths, not big lies.