21 December, 2009

...a magician.

I just finished reading an excellent book of essays on pop culture by Chuck Klosterman called Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He talks about everything from Paradise City, a Guns N Roses cover band, to Zack Morris, to porn. It's really well written and very funny.

One of his little two or three page interludes between essays involves the 23 questions he asks someone to determine if he “can really love them.”

I intend to post these questions to you, dear reader, because I am interested in hearing your answers. Also, because I'm too lazy to come up with any of my own content around the holidays.

Here is the first:

"Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks - he can pull a rabbit out of a hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can't learn any more; he can only do these five. HOWEVER, it turns out he's doing these five tricks with real magic. It's not an illusion; he can actually conjure the bunny out of the ether and he can move the coin through space. He's legitimately magical, but extremely limited in scope.

Would this person be more impressive than Albert Einstein?"

Note: I wrote this post on my BlackBerry, so let's assume any grammatical errors are due to that and not my writing skills. :)

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