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From: Derek
Date: Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:16pm
Subject: Re: exposing magic secrets
From experience I think that the problem is this. One half of your
persona wants to know how it was done. The other half enjoys the
suspended belief, the fantasy , the magic and wonderment. The
stronger desire will win. With many effects in magic people would be
disappointed by the secret. Others would be annoyed at themselves by
being so easily fooled. Others would by fascinated by the lateral
thinking that creates the trick and fools the mind, whether the
mechanics were simple or not. On one occasion I was pinned against a
door by the throat by an irrate spectator, after a show, who demanded
to know how a specific trick was done. I think he must have had an
inferiority complex and could not bear to be fooled by such a wee
man. He was a 6'3" police officer built like a brick sh*t-house.
I'm only 5'4". The only saving grace was that I'm a 5'4" ex-bouncer
with a black belt in Karate. I didn't tell him how the trick was
done but did teach him a lesson in self-defence 8^)
