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The Billet Article - Waddington Witters
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This article is taken from The Billet Issue - 406 - Nov 2005, Authored by Mark Waddington
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Waddington Witters | Well, I must be bored! I've got another week or so before I start my apprenticeship, so I've decided to sit down and write a few articles for the Billet. I won't submit them to Mr Editor all at once, but will spread them out over the next few issues. Today, I've been thinking, how do you truly know when you're a magician? Well, I have the answer! Following, is a list and if any of the things of the list apply to you, then I think it would be wise to stop practicing those Faro shuffles and Charlier cuts and think about what you've done! You rate women in terms of how they'd fit the Zig Zag Illusion box rather than your bed. Your ever-loving asks if you've emptied the dustbin and you insist on taking a silk out of it just to prove it's empty. You check your small change regularly in case you find an unintentionally spent Coin Unique. You know that Houdini died in Detroit, Michigan at Grace Hospital in room 401 at 1:26 P.M. on October 31, 1926 but forget your own wedding anniversary. You know at least three different ways of levitating - and none of them involve camera trickery! You see IT on your child's school syllabus and are disappointed to find it really means Information Technology. You express righteous indignation at all these totally unnecessary Masked Magician type exposure TV shows - but watch and record them anyway in the interests of 'research'. Your ever-loving whispers seductively that tonight's the night where you can get really close up - and you immediately start arranging chairs around the table to give you the best angles. You openly criticise TV magicians - instead of saying 'wow' - when they do something amazing. You start spotting Bicycle decks being used in films - and wonder why no-one else knows what the heck you're talking about. You have an above-average knowledge of American and Chinese coinage. You become impatient and frustrated more easily by trivial things - such as a practicing a coin roll or how many Charlier cuts you can do in a minute. You're perceived interpretation of what a 'stripper' deck is has changed dramatically from the one's you remember seeing in 'those' seaside shops when you were an adolescent. You start to wonder if you're hands might be smaller than average. You experience the "Lord of the Rings effect", which is when you walk around with a thumb tip in your pocket and get a constant inner calling to put your hand in the pocket and just slip it on for a few minutes, knowing full well that it WILL be invisible. When learning to palm a coin you walk around all day with your hand shaped like a claw trying not to be too obvious, picking up pens and books - just because you can. You can't pick a pen up without checking to see if the end comes away. The phrase, 'May the Force be with you' doesn't make you think of Obi-Wan Kenobi. You know you can see an Invisible Deck. Someone asks you where they can find the Khyber Pass and you refer them to RRTCM. Well, that's all I've got for this one guys, but I'd like to leave you with a saying: It's the early bird that gets the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese! Bye!!!!!! |
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