What I noticed from Adam Gopnik’s The Real Work in The New Yorker for March 17, 2008:
Magic is possible because magicians are smart. And what they’re smart about is mainly how dumb we are, how limited in vision, how narrow in imagination, how resourceless in conjecture, how routinized in our theories of the world, how deadened to possibility. The magician awakens us from the dogmatic slumbers of our daily life, our interactions with cards and hoops and things. He opens a door by pointing to a window.
britta | 20-Apr-08 at 11:41 pm | Permalink
This reminds me of something Cosma & friends bookmarked a week or two ago - http://del.icio.us/url/5e939bb1a2265d68965da2650ad91fda - but oddly enough, that blog post is password-protected now. Well, maybe you read it at the time.
[p.s. Yay for discontinuing delicious daily blog posting. Now, no need to skip what I already read in my network.]