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- From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: To reveal or not to reveal...
- Message-ID: <BARNETT.92Nov18090435@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:04:35 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 17 Nov 92 18:28:54 GMT
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- In article <1ebdl6INNmc8@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
- >>People don't want secrets. They think they do, but they really want mystery.
-
- >Imho, saying this to 13,000 non-magicians does more harm to the magic community
- >than revealing secrets. "I know what you want better than you do" is pretty
- >insulting.
-
- How do you figure this does harm? If the audience knew how every trick
- worked, there would be no reason to see a magic act. This would
- certainly put a lot of magicians out of work.
-
- Do you think people would come to see a magician TWICE if they knew
- how everything worked?
-
- Have you every told a member of the lay audience how a trick worked -
- only to see a look of disappointment in their faces when they realized
- how simple the trick was?
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- Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
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