I'm in a very peculiar business folks. Oh not the magic stuff now I I'd levitate the

ladies in the air and I saw them in several pieces. Incidentally it's my fervent

wish that someday a lady magician will saw a gentleman in several pieces and perhaps forget to put them back together again in some cases.

But I do that sort of thing. I appear on stages around the world as a conjurer.

Now the American term for it is magician. It's not a good expression because if you look in the dictionary the strict definition of

magician is one who uses magic and magic the definition I prefer from a leading dictionary is the attempt to control nature by means of spells and incantations.

Now ladies and gentlemen in my time as you might have guessed I have tried

spells an incantations. No good. You can spell an incant all you want. The lady will still be on the couch

waiting patiently to float into the air and will be imprisoned in the box and

the saw blade descending upon her unprotected midriff and in some danger of

being severely scratched if not worse. Spells and incantations don't work you have to

use skull-duggery and let me make it very clear what the magical trade the

conjuring trade is more correct as conjuring is the approximation of the effect of a

true magician using means of subterfuge and trickery. The magician, if you will, in the American usage is an actor playing

the part of a wizard. We are entertainers. I don't think that there are many folks but there are some out there

by David Copperfield's own admission to me who still believe that really he can

do the things that he purports to do.

Now after a magical performance, we've all undergone the same experience,

all of us in the trade.

You get people coming to afterwards and saying,

I really enjoyed what you did.

Thank you so much for coming and you say,

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