MegaSurge said:
Magick is the Art and Science of causing change in conformity with Will. In this definition, Blaine is actually doing Magick but not in the sense of illusionary tricks. His "stunt" as it were, is that he intends to do something through his Will which has not been known to have been done before and may even be therotically impossible according to what is currently known about medicine. As he succeeds these feats, he successfully used his Will to do "real" Magick. That said, most of his feats tend to focus on something to do with the physical body as opposed to some other more mystical aspect. It would be interesting to see him do some sort of telekinetic feat, wouldn't it?
I thought magick was the art and science of launching a +1 magic missile against an enraged orc.
So, then, why did you just arbitrarily make up a super-specific menu? "There's no research on how to go about this. Guess I better practice speaking Klingon and learn the banjo, just to be on the safe side..."
I remember when he did his starvation act and remember thinking.. didn't Kafka write a story around ninety years ago about how no one cared about this kind of act in the slightest anymore.
Way to go for the zeitgeist David Blaine. If 'the Amazing Race' seems more badass than your stage show .. you have problems.
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Cleveland, OH
April 2004
DEC 09, 2007 10:09 AM