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Mr Salk
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I interpret Vernon's message to be a call for straightforward simplification.
He prefers a trick with a short arc and punch, rather than a multi-phase drawn out behemoth.
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On Aug 2, 2018, Mr Salk wrote:
I interpret Vernon's message to be a call for straightforward simplification.
He prefers a trick with a short arc and punch, rather than a multi-phase drawn out behemoth.

I assume you aren't talking about his Smile routine! Smile
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I don't think the spectator needs to be able to describe the trick - it's a matter of style. It's like the difference between a book by Jane Austen and a book by Gabriel García Márquez. Both are terrific authors. At the end of an Austen, I can describe everything; at the end of a Márquez, I'm like wow, my mind is blown, and I'm not entirely sure what happened.

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On Aug 5, 2018, shaunluttin wrote:
I don't think the spectator needs to be able to describe the trick - it's a matter of style. It's like the difference between a book by Jane Austen and a book by Gabriel García Márquez. Both are terrific authors. At the end of an Austen, I can describe everything; at the end of a Márquez, I'm like wow, my mind is blown, and I'm not entirely sure what happened.

That is a very accurate comparison. By the way, the kind of magic that Shin Lim, Eric Chien and Bill Cheung exhibit did not exist at all in Vernon's time. It is a kind of symbiosis of technology and magic that create a magical experience. The same can be said of the creations of Marco Tempest.
The question is whether this kind of magic still belongs in the conventional subdomains micro and card magic? Should not a separate category be created for it? (techno-magic?)
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On Aug 5, 2018, shaunluttin wrote:
I don't think the spectator needs to be able to describe the trick - it's a matter of style. It's like the difference between a book by Jane Austen and a book by Gabriel García Márquez. Both are terrific authors. At the end of an Austen, I can describe everything; at the end of a Márquez, I'm like wow, my mind is blown, and I'm not entirely sure what happened.


I think you are right! Magicians often hear "rules" from masters and don't realize that those are THEIR rules, not necessarily YOUR or MY rules. Magic is like movies. What worked in the 1940s movies doesn't work in today's movies.

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