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- From: gouldh@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: disclosure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.104118.4054@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 10:41:18 -0600
- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In the opening givin by Harry Blackstone Jr. at a recent performance in
- Memphis he asked the audience to sit back and suspend believe in the
- physical world and let their imagination take over.
-
- It is easier to do this if you do not know how the illusion is done. In an
- article by Buddy O'Day (linking Ring vol 72 page 65) It is pointed out that
- although the public thinks it wants to know what we are doing they are
- disappointed when they find out. Watch those who you practice around, wives,
- children and friends. If you look, they are entertained much more when they are
- totally baffled by what you have done. I personnaly love the amazement in my
- sons eyes when I wow him with a new effect that he hasn't figured out. He
- appreciates magic both ways but he and my wife have both told me that to the
- layperson the magic is not only in the technical skill but in the ablity to
- suspend belief. By disclosure we limit that ability.
-
- In summary I will not disclose in this news group. The public only thinks it
- wants to know.
-
-
- Herb Gould
-