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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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CHAPTER
XVIII.
CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS.
It
now
only
remains
to
give
the
neophyte
a
few
parting
hints
of
general
application.
In
getting
up
any
trick,
even
the
simplest,
the
first
task
of
the
student
should
be
to
carefully
read
and
consider
the
instructions
given,
and
to
make
quite
certain
that
he
perfectly
comprehends
their
meaning.
This
being
ascertained,
the
next
point
will
be
to
see
whether
the
trick
involves
any
principle
of
sleight-of-hand
in
which
he
is
not
thoroughly
proficient;
and
if
it
does,
to
set
to
work
and
practise
diligently,
till
the
difficulty
is
conquered.
Having
thus
mastered
the
elements
of
the
trick,
he
should
next
attack
it
as
a
whole,
and
in
like
manner
practise,
practise,
practise,
till
from
beginning
to
end
he
can
work
each
successive
step
of
the
process
with
ease
and
finish.
Having
achieved
this
much,
he
may
perhaps
consider
that
his
task
is
at
an
end.
By
no
means.
Being
perfect
in
the
mechanical
portion
of
the
illusion,
he
must
now
devote
himself
to
its
dramatic
element,
which,
as
regards
the
effect
upon
the
spectator,
is
by
far
the
more
important
portion.
The
performer
should
always
bear
in
mind
that
he
fills
the
character
of
a
person
possessing
supernatural
powers,
and
should
endeavour,
in
every
word
and
gesture,
to
enter
into
the
spirit
of
his
part.
As
the
true
actor,
playing
Hamlet,
will
endeavour
actually
to
be
Hamlet
for
the
time,
so
the
soi-disant
magician
must,
in
the
first
place,
learn
to
believe
in
himself.
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