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Everyone has skeletons in their closet. There’s at least one in mine. A couple of years ago while on a cruise, I pinched a spoon from the dining room. It wasn’t because of any lack of spoons at home, it was because no matter how hard I tried, I could not bend this one. I tried with two hands, I tried by pushing against the table, I even tried placing the handle under my heel and tugging on the head. No give at all. I had to have that spoon!

I’ve been practising magic as a hobby ever since I was a teenager. It has turned out to be a perfect fit with my career because of the numerous scientific principles involved in creating the illusion of contravening the laws of nature. And that is what magic is all about. Seeing someone levitate, or vanish inside a cabinet, or appear out of thin air, requires an apparent suspension of the laws of nature. The key word of course is “apparent,” because all such effects are accomplished by clever scientific means.