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Gerald Deutsch Special user 526 Posts |
Two workmen came to my home today to do some work. One of them knows me well and he said to me, "Show my friend a trick."
I wanted to do one thing quickly to satisfy them and let them work so I asked if one of them had a dime. When I got the dime I put it in the new worker's hand and said "I'm going to change the dime into a quarter. Watch!" I snapped my fingers and told the worker to open his hand and there was - a penny! "Darn! I did something wrong!" They were entertained, amused and fooled and with that presentation it wasn't necessary to do anything more. |
fonda57 Inner circle chicago 3078 Posts |
That's so awesome. And I bet you didn't even use a super triple deluxe all purpose tango flipper shell coin.
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MultiSlacker New user GA 59 Posts |
Misleading title! Nothing perverted here.
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karnak Special user Connecticut 747 Posts |
Well, it sounds like it cost one of the workers nine cents....
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Gerald Deutsch Special user 526 Posts |
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On Jun 21, 2017, MultiSlacker wrote: Perverse Magic - Some History I first learned the term “Perverse Magic” when reading Dariel Fitzkee’s “Showmanship For Magicians” where he says: “Charles Waller devotes a section in his ‘Up His Sleeve’ to what he calls ‘Perverse Magic’. This is simply loss of control of the objects with which he is working to the extent the objects do what they please regardless of the performer.” and “Many angles from which to present a magic act may be found if a little thought is given to the subject. Charles Waller suggested a field that has been untouched as far as I know. This is a type of magic referred to before in this work, which he calls ‘Perverse Magic’. In this type of presentation the tricks seem to take charge of affairs themselves doing quite the reverse of what the performer wishes.” And in the Charles Waller book, “Up His Sleeve” he says: “In the usual form of magical entertainment the most extraordinary things happen, professedly because the performer wills that it should be so. He utters a command, waves his wand, or fires a pistol and every natural law is apparently set at naught. In what I choose to call perverse magic, surprising things happen, despite the influence of the magician, and sometimes without his knowledge. “This is a mode of presentation that I have, for years, applied to certain tricks, and found productive of the most delightful results. Not only does this departure from the stereotyped style provide a pleasant change; but its discreet use helps to create a very desirable magical atmosphere. The spectators cannot help but feel that they are living in a world of wonders when inanimate objects, taking the audience into their confidence, so to speak, execute droll and astounding actions behind the magician’s back. Let me give a few examples.” Perverse Magic is not magic that goes wrong but magic that happens by itself against what the magician wants or expects to happen. I tried to break Perverse Magic into six categories as follows: (1) something happens without the performer’s knowledge, (2) the performer says one thing will happen but something else does, (3) the performer says he’s going to do something but it happens by itself, (4) the performer is caught, he admits it but then he and the audience are surprised, (5) the performer and the audience are on different planes and (6) the performer explains something that will happen but he doesn’t understand why it happens. |
Gerald Deutsch Special user 526 Posts |
I posted a number of Perverse Coin effects on the Perverse Magic thread of the Genii Forum. Some of them are:
Coins Through Table – December 2002 You say a quarter will pass through the table but only half the quarter passes through. Coins From Bill - June 2010 Coins Almost Across – December 2010 and April 2011 The Bent Coin – December 2014 Quarter App – Jun 2015 Quarter from Cel Phone Merger - Feb 2016 Perverse Coin When Not Prepared To Perform November 2016 Borrowed coin expected to float but vanishes. |
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