" Every
great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called
"The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of
cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to
inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it
probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician
takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now
you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course
you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be
fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't
enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third
act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".
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