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- From: mike@vpnet.chi.il.us (michael kamlet)
- Subject: Re: To reveal or not to reveal...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.194757.7437@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Vpnet Public Access
- References: <BARNETT.92Nov17125452@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <1ebdl6INNmc8@agate.berkeley.edu> <BARNETT.92Nov18090435@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:47:57 GMT
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- In article <BARNETT.92Nov18090435@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
- >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?
- >--
-
- I couldn't agree more. I have explained how some stuff works to a few people
- and EVERY time the person is now unimpressed & disappointed.
-
- I also do a strait-jacket escape (usually a comedy bit) and EVERY time I
- get out of it - the audience is usually unimpressed -- because it looked
- so easy (that's why I do it as comedy..) I think its because they want to
- see me dislocate my shoulder in order to get out of it...:-)
-
- .
- k
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