Magic Tricks

R. Paul Wilson's products have always given evidence of a brilliant creator of simple, essentialized techniques that combine to achieve spectacular effects ("effects" meaning an apparent violation of the laws of nature) -- and the techniques and progression of his effects could be adapted to one's own taste.

This lecture scintillates that brilliance even more.

As a specific example, Paul teaches a mutative extension of Rene Lavand's Three Bread Crumbs -- by making two contributions: (1) an observation involving sound and (2) his demonstration of the varied ways for handling the coins. Lavand's method for handling the crumbs does not adapt to the handling of coins; while people can handle crumbs the way Lavand handles crumbs, only a "Shin Lim of coins" might be able to handle coins identical to how Lavand handles crumbs -- so Paul's demonstration of methods for producing the effect with coins is a crucial contribution.

The Act as a whole is cohesive -- and the discussions provide insights that would allow one to adapt either the Act itself or -- more importantly -- the thinking underlying the Act to one's own devices.