Abracadabra Update!
Commenter TheNeonJesus pointed this out:
The comments on “You’re A Magician…” are quotes from The Prestige. One of the characters in the movie does say “Abracadabra” at some point, but I can’t remember when and what it was related to. In The Prestige there is a key to the illusion, and the word is “TESLA” though this is incorrect when you type it into intelligenceisartificial.com…
In The Prestige the key is unlocked using a transposition cipher which this postcard could turn out to be in it’s entirety?
Hmmmm…interesting.
How many of you have seen this movie? I absolutely loved it, but it didn’t even occur to me when I was reading over the blogspot. But with this, I’m wondering if the whole thing has to do with the explanation of a magic trick:
Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.”
