Mesmerizing (Measuring Magic Tricks)
excerpt from a work in progress
MESMERIZING Animal Magnetism makes
All submit to the great Magnetizer; even though they appear to be asleep, his voice, a sudden look, a signal launched with the flick of the wrist, pulls them out of it. We cannot help but acknowledge the magnetic presence of a great power which moves and controls patients, never placebo, always
electric—and which resides in the MAGNETIZER
PLACEBO of invisible fluids, to subject to mesmerism, also hypnotize, spellbind [lacking taste, color, or scent]
Whether hypnotist, magician, or psychiatric practitioner--
A MAGNETIC CHARM OR APPEAL residing
in the practice of therapeutic hypnosis IT [the placebo effect] of a Birthday Party Magician, Magnetizer, charms the day with its
Abracadabra
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Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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