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> “challenging our relationship to the truth“ I’ve seen a lot of great illusionists who never claimed to be doing real magic, and they were no less entertainin

• Gordonjcp 3y ago
  Penn and Teller, for example. Or, going back a lot further, Paul Daniels, who did the same kind of thing Penn and Teller did on his TV show decades earlier, where he'd show you a trick, then show you it slowly, then show you how to do it, then show you the same trick with a twist you'd never figure out - real magic :-D He actually wrote a computer game in the 1980s where you had to learn to do some close-up magic tricks in real life in order to solve the in-game puzzles. The real magic is showing people exactly how the trick is done, and *still* fooling them with it.