Mark Lewis' "Lives of a Showman" and Magicana

[Mark.Lewis]

I have just started to make contact with people in the book from 40 years ago. It is astonishing to find that many of them are still alive.

[Jolly Roger]

Do we have a publication date yet? JR

[Adam Dennis]

There were discussions earlier today with the author and our layout and production department. We estimate that the finished product will be ready to go to the printer this weekend. However the cover has yet to be organised. Once that is done the whole thing will be sent to the printer so it should yet be a week or two.

Incidentally as an aside, the author informs me that International Magic are also producing a DVD featuring the author and this may possibly be out around the same time although we have no direct control over this.

[mrgoat]

I think the cover should be goatse.

[Ian Kendall]

Oh dear gosh, no.

Please, no.

Just no.

Although, it would make for an interesting display in Davenports...

[AJM]

I would go for it - at least it would be less offensive than having the subject's self-satisfied countenance plastered on the cover.

Cheers

Andrew

[Sr Agnes Fate]

Mr Lewis has informed us elsewhere that the cover shows him covered with money. He has always been a man of the highest taste and decorum.

[AJM]

I don't know about anyone else, but I always find it very strange when people refer to themselves in the third person...

[mrgoat]

AJM, it's so no one will know Sr Agnes Fate is ACTUALLY Mark Lewis getting round his ban!

I know, I know, you NEVER would have guessed.

It's a good job I'm here to guide you through his masterful deception!

[AJM]

Damian

So let me get this straight - there are actually people on the Interweb who PRETEND to be someone else?

Why, that's despicable.

I'm going to write a stiff letter to that chap who invented the World Wide Net, Al Gore, and demand he do something about it.

We simply can't have people going around masquerading as others - the whole fabric of society would crumble around us like a house of dominoes!

Honestly, in this day and age - it beggars belief!

Many thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Yours sincerely

Brad Pitt (Mrs)

[Richard Kaufman]

Sr Agnes Fate is not Mark Lewis.

[Sr Agnes Fate]

Thank you Richard. One person is acting like a goat and the other appears to be banging his head against a brick wall. I would appreciate it if the latter gentleman would continue this activity with a bit more effort.

[Richard Kaufman]

If you continue to make remarks like that, you will go the way of Mark Lewis.

[Jonathan Townsend]

"I don't know about anyone else, but I always find it very strange when people refer to themselves in the third person..."

Yes, that's been done - is there a fourth person?

[Kent Gunn]

Jonathan,

One, with a habit of using bizarre sentence structures should not throw stones. (Some would call that fourth person)

If you're speaking Japanese or several other languages that have more complex forms of honorifics you can write or speak in what most cunning linguists would call fourth person.

Or, more simply; "Yes". I suspect you were asking a rhetorical question. Being the pedant I am, I've replied with some rhetoric.

KG

[Jonathan Townsend]

Kent,

If I were to attempt to speak Japanese it would be getting each phomene out so slowly as to be funny.

Now about that fourth person in grammar - real question and not a refernce to the comicbook Planetary or such.

-J

[AJM]

Jonathan

I think the 'fourth person' in grammatical terms is actually encapsulated in the foregoing example - vis-a-vis by that chap Lark Mewis, or whatever his name is, referring to himself in the third person whilst masquerading as that ludicrously monikered character, Sr Agnes Fate.

Which prompts me to paraphrase a certain question which was raised in another thread recently...by myself if I'm not mistaken.

Ou sont les svengali-pitchers d'antan?

Right here on the Genii Forum would be my response - yesterday's (or, more precisely, yesteryear's) man.

Now that we have resolved an example of a 'fourth person' in grammer, how about we try and find a 'fifth' - for example, Sr Agnes passing favourable comment on Mr Mewis to Psychic Lawrence? But then that would be taking things too far...

Cheers

Andrew

[Jonathan Townsend]

Thanks Andrew,

So on Sesame Street when Ernie and Bert talk about Miss Piggy, who is really Frank Oz's other hand, we are in the what numbered person tense?

Hey, we can use Mark Mewis as literary device and gramatical example. ;D (what's the emoticon for evil grin?)

-J

[Richard Kaufman]

Andrew, Sr Agnes Fate is NOT Mark Lewis.

[Adam Dennis]

Actually the only place you will find the REAL Mark Lewis is the book itself. As I mentioned on another thread it will be out in the public arena very shortly. Once you read the book you may well be surprised to find out who Mark Lewis REALLY is..........

We predict that it will be the magical autobiography of the year.

[Jonathan Townsend]

? he's a fictional character?

[Adam Dennis]

Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction.

[Jonathan Townsend]

So he's a cognitive virus of extraterrestrial origin?
Not a person or archetype but an instance of active code?

Anyway, all my known interatcions with the being known to some as ML have been cordial.

@ML - I hope your book is a succesful pageturner,

-J

[Dustin Stinett]

I am locking this thread. There is no reason to have two on this subject.