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The First Strategy: Forget Reality

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
—Albert Einstein

Scene: This really happened. It’s the mid-1970s, and Doug Henning is re-energizing magic with his own form of magical wonder. He walks onto a Broadway stage, his pants one of those strange 1970s colors, and he’s holding a newspaper, reading it, and turning to the audience: “The only thing a magician really does is to ask one question: ‘What’s real, and what’s illusion?’” 

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