The Art of Sleights and Deception

Elementary 5×20

& Holmes: There is no muscle more useful to the skilled illusionist than his or her tongue. It comes into play in any number of tricks and is exercised constantly.

& Holmes: This is the first time in my career that a bullet has taken a life without being fired.

& Holmes: One thing practitioners of magic tend to have in common is a fascination with the macabre. Depictions of death. Torture devices. Instruments of the occult. These things find their way not only into the magician’s act but into his or her way of life.

& Watson: The Art of Sleights and Deception... Oh, it’s a magician’s how-to book. ...
    Holmes: ...that book is no mere how-to. It is, in fact, widely considered to be the magician’s bible.

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& Holmes: Pick a card, any card.

& Holmes: Do you know why the King of Hearts is called «The Suicide King?»
    Watson: Because of the way he holds his sword. It looks like it’s going through his head.
    Holmes: Yes. Now this is true of virtually all traditional playing cards produced over the last 200 years. Equally true is that the sword is held in the left hand.

& Holmes: I think you were right. The author of Sleights and Deception did participate in a study of carpal tunnel surgery in the late 1950s.
    Watson: Oh, good morning to you, too.

& Ballard Clifton: Mystery kept, mystery solved, it all balances out financially.

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