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Person Place Thing

Person Place Thing

Magician Joshua Jay

By Tina Renick

Published December 8, 2023 at 10:45 PM EST

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Magician Joshua Jay had mixed feelings when he figured out how a colleague performed an illusion. “It was no less amazing to me when I knew how it was done, but it was disappointing.” The austere joy of knowledge or the sensuous pleasure of mystery: a magician’s dilemma. Jay tells us about an anonymous prisoner and a cliff in Ecuador.

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