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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts 
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Which are best books on history the old ones or the updated ones?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5449 Posts
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"When I was a wee lad in school, History had yet to be invented."
--Billy McComb I don't think the updated ones would be as historical... |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Talking about doctors and words just give me a little idea: Suppose you wanted to make it appear that a playing card could speak. Well take a Doctors Stethoscope and hide a tiny r/r in it.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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I was heavily influenced by Copperfield. He was the big guy was in my pre-teens and teens. I can't do what he did, I have neither the budget nor the skills. But what I did take away from his work was the idea that every routine tells a story. And I always try to build and frame my routines that way.
I believe that, in a really good performance, Magic is a tool to telling a tale that is bigger then just the illusion.
It is always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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On 2010-07-29 20:02, tommy wrote: I have very mixed feelings about technology in magic, especially micro-electronics. In some ways, its no different then what magicians have done for thousands of years, which is to exploit scientific principles unfamiliar to the common man. BUT I worry that the existence of technological wonders cheapens and degrades the art. It is quite possible these days, for instance, to build a computer system that tracked the movement of a pen on a pad, converted the words to speech, and fed them back to an mentalist through a tiny flesh-colored ear-piece. But is that magic? or just a technology demonstration? Where do you draw the line?
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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On 2010-07-29 13:52, George Ledo wrote: I think Punch and Judy both needed psychoanalysis.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On 2010-07-29 16:36, Whit Haydn wrote: Thanks for this.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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On 2010-07-30 16:13, LobowolfXXX wrote: Someone once said "History is a story of wars told by the winners." There is certainly some truth to that, especially in written histories. But I was referring to living with history, and those who live with it don't need to read it or be told it. Its part of the cultural meeme set.
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Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5449 Posts
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On 2010-07-28 14:55, tommy wrote: It was told about Paladin star Richard Boone, that he was knocked down more than once by stunt men who later said, "I thought I may have hit him too hard or something, and he was mad and was really going to hit me!" |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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I knew this fellow years ago who used to read cowboy books and play the part of one the characters in whatever book he happened be reading, in life. I say I knew him but I didn’t know he was from one week to the next. I only realised he was doing this after reading one of books and recognizing him in it. He would not only play the part but talk to you as if you were another character in the book, even by giving you the name. Funny thing was, it didn’t seem odd to me until I realised what he doing.
I guess we all copy people from films etc to some extent by way of using quotes and catch phrases and so on. You don’t notice it until you look for it. The arts fashion us. Its really spooky when you think about it. They even shape the way we talk, dress. hair styles and so on. I don’t know they want see someone they can identify with but rather they want to see someone they would like to imitate. But you can’t rally copy a magician as you can’t do the tricks. We can sing a singers song tell a comics joke or quote Shakespeare and so on.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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History is whatever you need to be told happened before to make sure the same stuff will happen again.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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Wow, that's about the bleakest, most accurate post I've read here in a long time. If that's your own, Jon, it should be chiseled somewhere and you can go down in...
on the other hand, never mind. Quite close to Shakespeare's view of history, I believe.
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