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From: victorberghaus
Date: Wed Feb 27, 2002 2:34am
Subject: brief visit with Derren
Well, met Derren on Saturday at his place in
Bristol, with our mutual friend. I mentioned this site to
him. He said he's aware of it and finds it very
flattering, but keeps away from internet discussion groups.
He's clearly a very private person so I can understand
that. And I guess he doesn't want to discuss his
techniques a lot with the public. We all went out for lunch
and he kept people kept stopping him in the street -
he obviously gets a lot of that and must be bored of
it, although he was very nice each time it
happened.
Figaro, his little parrot, is very cute, and his flat is
amazing, absolutely full of books, piled evrywhere.
Derren's much funnier and softer and friendlier than I
imagined he'd be, a really nice guy. Maybe just a bit
detached... he doesn't seem to know anything about pop
culture.
I gave him a printout of your poem, Emily,
and he said he had said hello on your website. I
asked him what he thought of the poem and he said it
was 'genuinely terrifying'. But he was being funny,
so I think he took it well.
I've been a fan of
his for ages and have spoken a couple of times on the
phone with him. It was good meeting him and he did the
'guess which hand the coin's in' with me, which was
great. He also knew everything I was going to order from
the menu when we went out for lunch, which freaked me
out. I asked him about the use of hypnosis, and he
said he is careful not to use any actual 'hypnosis' in
the show, although he does use loads of suggestion.
But there are no hypnotic inductions or anything that
crosses the line into actual hypnotism.
So, a
nice few hours and a nice guy.
Victor.
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