Fantastic.
We are going to see his latest tour.
I will send an update!
"Dan Scorpio" <Dan.Scorpio@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> And For my Next Trick
> (Derren Brown on Practical Interrupts)
>
> "He was leaving a hotel at three in the morning after
> attending a magic convention when he was confronted
> by a large, drunken man displaying a clear appetite for
> random assault.
> 'I was wearing a velvet jacket and velvet waistcoat,'
> recalls Brown. 'It wasn't looking good.'
> 'What the **** are you looking at?' the drunk asked as he
> squared up to Brown's face.
> 'There's not much you can say to that kind of question,'
> observes Brown on reflection. 'But what you can do is
> act completely out of context. So I said: '''The wall outside
> my house isn't four feet high.''' The drunk's eyes narrowed
> in confusion.'
> 'What?' he asked.
> Then Brown hit him with another broadside.
> 'Ah, you see, when I was in Spain, they were about
> seven foot high. But look at them here - they're tiny.'
>
> The fledgling mind-magician took a deep breath and
> waited to see if his strategy had worked.
> 'I was expecting him to get so confused that his mind
> would become susceptible to some kind of hypnotic
> suggestion,' Brown explains. 'What happened was he actually
> shouted out: ''''Oh ****!''' and burst into tears.
> I spent the next 10 minutes sitting on the kerb trying to give
> him advice about his girlfriend.' "
>
> ['The Guide': Guardian, April 3 2004]
>
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