As author Terry Pratchett once said, “It’s still magic if you know how it’s done.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Terry Pratchett Quote”
Here’s a quote I love from Terry Pratchett who died recently, the author. It’s still magic if you know how it’s done. It’s totally true. Yeah, if you’ve seen Ricky Jay do his card tricks, you can watch them a hundred times. I watched a video on Netflix and rewound a certain scene I don’t 20, 30 times. A lot to try to see if I could see how he was pulling out entire decks of cards, apparently out of nowhere.
Utterly amazing.
How does he do it? It has to be magic. Maybe it is. It’s an amazing dexterity that comes from decades of practice and 100 or 200,000 repetitions. It’s astonishing. A lot of mistakes. I love that. Yeah, it’s still magic, even if you know how it’s done.
We miss you, Terry.
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