magician

Read by Sylphwyld.

Magician.

Read by Greg Giordano.

Leper.

And he bound the eyes of the Star-Child with the scarf of figured silk and led him through the house and through the garden of poppies and up the five steps of brass.

And having opened the little door with his ring, he set him in the street.

And the Star-Child went out of the gate of the City and came to the wood of which the Magician had spoken to him.

Now this wood was very fair to look at from without, and seemed full of singing birds and of sweet-scented flowers, and the Star-Child entered it gladly.

In between that bit, she's been on Penn & Teller's Fool Us, a special award from the American Psychol- Psychological Association for her research into misdirection, and around 50 million views online.

She's also the only woman in the Irish Society of Magicians.

Ella Nicholson, welcome.

How are you today?

... academic misdirection research and practical misdirection are quite bad, from what I understand, at talking to each other.

Um, Gustav Kuhn and Lamont produce papers.

Magicians produce working scripts.

Did the data that you got ever change a real routine of yours, or for you, is it a separate discipline that happens to have a common vocabulary?

I was just talking to them, uh, yesterday about, uh, miscellaneous shit that we're, uh...

Just, dude, if you scroll through the Magicians Only on f- on Facebook, you just, you get an aneurysm.

You get, like, a little fucking vein that just pops out here from, um, the stupidity, and, uh, we're just talking about that.

But fucking immaculate guys, and it's great to have them in the, uh, convention.

I can change things," or you just load it, whatever you wanna do.

And then it's, it's, it's, it's li- like people say quiver is fully examinable, and it is.

And I did see somebody post on Magicians Only that their quiver kept being accidentally opened the wrong way, and I've, I have heard stories of that in the past.

Um, this actually is the 100 examinable because the desi- it's so clever.

He published constantly.

He wrote books with titles like My Life of Magic, 400 Tricks You Can Do, The Mishaps of Magicians, and Fooling Millions.

He was busy.

Very.