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Originally Posted by jcat
yeah but what if the magician does the trick, under the illusion that someone else did it...
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Yeah... that WAS the trick.
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Originally Posted by jcat
Can't they perform a new bigger trick under the same pretext?
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Sure they can, but half of magic is shock, disbelief and denial. The other half is misdirection.
There is a growing undercurrent in US culture that eyes Georgie-boy with cynicism - criminal cynicism. Magicians prefer not to repeat tricks to the same audience due to the fact that; one, the shock-value is no longer there to blind the eyes or blunt the common-sense, and two, the cynical public eye is always trained on the every move of the 'Presidential' Showman when a repeat performance is granted. Misdirection does not come easily a second time.
Repeating the trick would be unlikely - at least not on the scale of 9/11.
I sincerely hope I'm correct.
--TM