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Today we get a taste for the extreme in our Art and the relative fuzziness of the border surrounding magic. There were a couple of stories in the news today that blended in with the cold blooded beheading of three innocent men by terrorists.
On one side of the globe, we have a Pakistani ?Black Magician? convicted of murdering one child and soon to be charged with two more child murders. Here in the states, a very interesting concept hits the tube with the premier of T.H.E.M. (?Totally Hidden Extreme Magic?). The show promises to be a combination of ?David Copperfield and Hidden Camera.?
Finally, we have the venerable Head Chopper or Guillotine illusion now seen in the reflected glow of the over-played video of beheadings. Sounds like an uplifting article? It gets better right at the end.
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The question before the house: is there some common thread between a story of a child murderer who uses and teaches Black Magic, the new show T.H.E.M., which premiered on NBC last night, Bizarre Magic and violence in mainstream magic.
Before we connect the dots between these strange islands of thought, let’s define our terms. Murder is the taking of a human life. (Note, Murder is not defined here as the taking of “an innocent human life.” One may justify the murder by suggesting there was an absolute need to kill but it is a justification not nullification. Killing Hitler was justified but it still would be murder.)
Black Magic is not Magic. It is more a kin to necromancy or witchcraft or spiritualism than Magic as magicians use the term. Bizarre Magic is not Black…
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