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Richard Kaufman wrote:It's really not clear what's happening yet, so I'll just leave it all for the moment.

Actually, that's a perfect argument for at least hiding the posts until things are clear. It makes less sense to leave unverified and damaging claims in the open for all to see.

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Indeed. The e-mail Tom Gaudette posted above is much more literate than the samples Jean Philippe provided. It's almost as though...they're different people.

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Richard, You should first make sure that these "e-mails" are genuine. I'm not sure why Gary is being attacked out of the blue like this. I'm not sure why "Paul Greene" is suddenly Jean S. Philippe (or Philipe). I'm not sure why we're being treated to two versions of transcripts t...

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Interesting response, however in academia, is Occam's Razor dogma? Or just a theorem? The simple way in circumstantial evidence has put many convicted persons to death. i.e., He was spotted in the area. He hated the victim. That is simple for a jury to convict. Geno, Occam's Razor is neither dogma ...

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Um, no...the "simplest solution" must still be a credible one. It's a strength of our craft that we optimally leave the audience with no solution but magic for what they witnessed, a solution they will not accept, for they refuse to believe it, but the only one with which they are left non...

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This seems like the kind of post that merits a response, but I don't understand about 80% of what you've written. I sense, though, that you're sitting there with hurt feelings.

Apologies.

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I dunno...it doesn't seem like anyone with 25,000 posts between Genii and the Cafe needs to be talking to anyone else about being distracted from learning and performing.

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My personal feeling is that if one is going to flip something around and make a name, one name is about as good as another. In other words, "S. W. Erdna" is about as good a pseudonym as "S. W. Erdnase." I understand that it was common practice then (and possibly now) to add rando...

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Honestly, I don't use the sleight in performance; I don't have an application for it. I just learned it because it's a cool move. -Matt That's cool, but I think what's being suggested to you in various forms is that while you extract the card from the deck well, that extraction isn't all there is t...

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Hang on a minute. Is the suggestion now that Erdnase shot photographs for the book over a long period of time, all with the long range plan of using them, some number of years later, as the foundation for illustrating the text? Here's the thing: David's written books, I've written books -- hell, hal...

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Apologies and excuses...hmmm...I make neither, and I'd appreciate your not accusing me of something I'm not doing and then trying to hold me accountable for it. I only suggest that your perspective of Marlo is rather one-dimensional and ignores the totality of the man. And you were certainly happy t...

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I'll start: The move Marlo called "Tilt" was invented by Dai Vernon and called "the Depth Illusion." It's just a crying shame that "tilt" is a much better name than "depth illusion." Even Vernon called the move "Tilt." And I've heard many times that...

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Well, I think you're proving my point. I also wouldn't recommend the DVDs to you, since there's a good chance that watching them would ruin your entire week.

I still like them. Quite a bit, actually.

Thanks.

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I'm just pointing out that no one really wants to talk about the dirty laundry. Well, you, Swiss, and a few others have been pounding on that for years. It's not true that no one really wants to talk about the dirty laundry. It's just that some of us don't want to make it our life's focus. Sometime...

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I must say that I'm immensely enjoying these DVDs, but I couldn't find a single thread on them anywhere. Surely I'm not alone?

Anybody else seen them yet?

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Glenn,

You're asking the wrong questions. It's totally irrelevant whether Roger is a professional magician. What matters is if he has enough of a foundation in the craft and an understanding of what it takes to perform. By the way, I have both, I'm a professional magician, and I agree with Roger.

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Glenn Bishop wrote:And being a "professional" I will refrain from responding to the little digs like video-trash.

I'm having trouble reconciling this with the previous six paragraphs in response to a little dig like "video-trash."

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Before you can work, you have to have people you can work with. Criss has fired, driven away or just generally pissed off everyone who's ever helped him creatively. His contract with A&E is gone. He's blowing the biggest gig in the world. He went after the brand of being arrogant and hard to wor...

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It's probably not the language so much as the attitude that drives it, which (unless there's some brilliant strategy at play that remains unperceived) doesn't seem to be working from any angle.

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Criticism ...the main and overriding attraction of criticism is that it at once makes the critic superior to what he is criticising. A man who criticises a play implies that he has seen better plays and that he knows what a better play is like. A girl who criticises a party wants people to know that...

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Well, just one more:

Many apologies.

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This thread has become silly. Disparity seems determined to have Richard admit that he's dishonest because he published a book he didn't like or think much of. This on-going nonsense reflects more on Disparitys lack of sophistication that it does Richards integrity. Having owned a niche publishing ...

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You're assuming they actually read the book before giving the quotes. You're assuming they read more than one chapter of the book. You're assuming they didn't just give the quotes because they're friends and the author asked. And if you assume those things, then you don't know anything about the pu...

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Ooh, ooh, a better title: Reversal of Fortune.

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I guess disparity can't formulate his own opinions or thought for himself deciding wether the book was good or not. Somebody on a thread on the internet had to tell him. Just because someone does'nt like a certain product don't mean others do. Even if its the person pushing the product. I can and h...

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Hey, I didn't question your motives for publishing the book, just the fact that you sold it to us one way and now tell us that was all a lie. Besides, you don't recognize ironic humor? As for not being able to tell what people are going to buy, that's not true. Everyone knew Sexy Magic was going to ...

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Very funny, Walter! What I would recommend is avoiding tripe like Strong Magic and watching good magicians perform, either live or recorded. Then performing yourself and developing a personal style. It's not that difficult, it's not brain surgery, and you don't have to read crap about Alfred Hitchc...

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...And its a source of anxiety for Jones because, despite the chasm that exists between him and Tom Jones, they do have something in common. Neither was hired by the hotel where hes appearing. Rather, each rents his showroom. Its called four-walling....

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And no doubt by reliable sources. The point is, a pedophile is a pedophile regardless of sexual orientation. Why do we never hear the phrase "heterosexual pedophile" used? Precisely. Can you imagine how curious it would sound to report on an Irish pedophile arrested yesterday? The extra d...

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First, I guess I have got to get me a different grapevine so I can hear about all this stuff while it goes on and then ignore it and let it continue like, well, apparently all you guys. Secondly, it's horrible that someone is a pedophile, and pedophilia is the crime, but I'm not certain what further...

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What the hell are you talking about?

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Idoru - not a bad idea. For those who've found a hole in their self image... idoru. Contrived as disposable anxiety distractors. Okay, I Googled it. I still have no clue what you're talking about. I'm also not going to read the entire novel just to find out. The novel uses the Japanese term as its ...

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Jonathan Townsend wrote:Idoru - not a bad idea.

For those who've found a hole in their self image... idoru. Contrived as disposable anxiety distractors.

Okay, I Googled it. I still have no clue what you're talking about. I'm also not going to read the entire novel just to find out.

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I dont want to highjack this thread into a Johnny Carson memorial, but since my knowledge of JC has been challenged thus: Dustin, You couldn't be more wrong. There are plenty of times when Carson said or did something that got a laugh at the expense of a guest, or their dignity. All I will say is, ...

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Is there more to this tale? There is ALWAYS more to the tale. However, when someone spends years and years crafting and then fine tuning a reputation for being an [censored], and then something like this happens, it's easy to think of him that way. It's what he always wanted, so who can blame anyon...

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I can't see how it will be good for magic overall if the show tanks. Well, it comes down to what Nathan wrote before his post disappeared. He commented along the lines that there is a distinct difference between how the public perceives magic and how magicians want the public to perceive magic. Reg...

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I hope that, for them and for magic, it works out.

I dunno. Does anyone else think that it might actually be GOOD for magic if the show tanks?

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Mr. Andrus, Thanks. I read the article when it first came out and many times since. I presume, and with no less strength than you presume the texts referred to were The Vernon Chronicles (not all written by Vernon? Actually, not at all written by Vernon) that your mentor is Ron Bauer. Regardless of ...

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I think that Roger M. hit the nail on the head when he said Steve Freeman is in the Percy Diaconis and Ricky Jay camp. Holy Cow! Ricky and Persi have a camp?! Can I still register? Do they have RV parking? To their dismay, Vernon wrote a series of instruction books. When these began to appear in pr...

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David, You can't blame the guys for missing the second deals, because the truth is that educated, experienced, reasonable people wouldn't look for such a thing in that routine. Using second deals in that routine is such an idiotic idea and a huge step backwards that nobody here would think of it. Re...

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