consumating fools
April 3, 2007
How would you like to be fooled?
I like to be fooled by magicians. Not the bizarro David Blaine-make-an-airplane-’disappear’ types - I can’t enjoy those big tricks, can’t suspend my disbelief high enough to enjoy them. But I do so very much enjoy good sleight of hand - making cards and rings and coins and hankies appear and disappear in the amusing mystery of legerdemain. I don’t want to know how they do it, even if they were willing to tell. I enjoy the fooling, the last little bit of childish ‘how’d they do that?’ not kicked out of my brain by school and physics textbooks and various other life experiences that tell me they shouldn’t be able to do that.
(From Consumating)
