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Gramacy
magician
magic
tricks
coincidence
[... 1 paragraph ...]
He turned on a small recorder; classical music with a tinny quality swirled through the room. He bowed his dark head for just a moment then lifted it, those soft eyes now … softer and harder at the same time; his hands moved in rhythm with the music; his whole body was a marvel of motion; shoulders, head, arms, chest — his whole trunk, responding to the music. Then at his command, four silver dollars disappeared through the tabletop and he caught them underneath in the palm of his hands. Playing cards appeared and disappeared. He was in a trance of his own; so were Rob and I, watching. And in the back of his mind was the improbable hope that one day, somehow, the coins would really go through the tabletop. …
“Or that something will happen to me, that will prove that there is more to life than usual cause and effect,” he said to us. “I almost believe that there is. But in my own life, I can’t find it. It’s not in my bag of tricks,” he went on suggestively. “But if someone else told me things about myself that no one could know. …”
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
Rob replied, “That test was just one of many we did. We didn’t discount anything. When you use coincidence as a handy explanation for everything, then you never get that far.”
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
Producing
from it’s magical bag
of tricks,
one marvelous form
of life after another,
fish,
bird,
monkey,
man
(not just one dove
or rabbit)
with a skill and swiftness
so astute
that our wise men think
one turns into the other!
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
