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Clay Shevlin Elite user 497 Posts |
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On 2010-01-22 19:06, MattMagician wrote: Hi Matt: It sounds like you are not yet a college student (apologies if I’m mistaken about that), in which case you might want to limit your paper to a discussion of what we know about early magic tricks, based on the historical records known thus far. For this, you could consult the standard magic history texts (such as Clarke’s The Annals of Conjuring, Dawes’ The Great Illusionists, and Christopher’s The Illustrated History of Magic – just search here or on the web for popular magic history texts and info on these and a few other titles should be readily found), and from there synthesize and interpret what you have read for your paper – and perhaps incorporate some philosophical discussion if you feel you must. But getting into the metaphysical aspects of magic is a black hole of research and time. A guy named Lynn Thorndike ventured into such depths for only a portion of our early history, and his book, A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era ran to 8 volumes and over 6,500 pages. Good luck with your research and writing project, and I hope you do post the results of your research for us to read! And I hope you ski, because you’re a lucky dog living so close to Telluride! Clay |
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