Today’s email is a few words longer than usual, but this story is too much fun not to tell in full…
I’m a real fan of a great magic trick, but my wife hates them.
She doesn’t like to be fooled or be unable to figure out how a trick is done.
I’ve seen the great illusionist David Copperfield live three or four times. Totally worth it to my mind.
Then of course there’s his famous TV performances making an elephant, airplane and even the Statue or Liberty disappear right before your very eyes.
It’s said these weren’t tricks done by some televisual ruse, and that there were live audience members there as proof.
But who knows.
I’m not really sure how I feel about masked magicians breaking the “magicians’ code” and revealing the secrets of the crazy tricks we’ve seen performed over the years.
In some way, I do want to know how the trick is done.
On the other hand, I don’t like someone revealing tricks of the trade just to make a name for themselves.
A long-time friend on mine, Steve, is a pretty good magician. He’s been doing it since we were kids in school.
One time, he called me from the audience onto the stage to be his guinea pig.
I had no idea he was going to do this or what was about to occur. It definitely wasn’t prearranged.
He asked me for $20 bill.
As it turns out, I only had $100 bills in my pocket.
Odd, but true.
I reluctantly handed one over and he verified its authenticity in some comical way which I can’t remember.
He then asked me to sign it with a felt pen, which I did.
After that he sealed the signed bill in an envelope which he then signed over the seal.
To my horror, he then took out a lighter, set fire to the envelope with the bill inside and let it burn completely to ashes in a metal dish.
Of course, now the fun began.
He was making comments about my money being gone and how the trick didn’t work and how sorry he was.
This went on for a few minutes. The interaction was very entertaining.
The audience was having a good old laugh at my expense, which I was fine with.
I wasn’t really worried about the $100 bill, but knew also that the punch line was coming.
And come it did.
After a few minutes, he pulled from the inside of his jacket a zippered wallet and handed it to me.
He asked me to open the wallet, which I did.
He then asked me to pull out what was inside, which was an envelope with his apparent signature over the seal, just as the other was a few minutes a go.
He then asked me to open the envelope and pull out what was inside, which I also did.
To my total amazement, what I pulled of the envelope was the $100 bill with my signature on it in felt pen.
I have no idea to this day how it got there.
I was and still am totally baffled by the trick.
I’ve never tried to research how it was done. I prefer to live in the amazement of the moment and enjoy it every time I think of it.
There was definitely an illusion and/or sleight of hand that took place in front of my very eyes that day.
It’s amazing how the mind can be tricked to believing what it thinks it sees.
The truth is, you can use this to your advantage and train your brain.
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